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Janet Evanovich quote: "It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you..."
It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due."Carl Costanza - Seven Up Janet Evanovich
She was one of those Southerners who were aware from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives. Pat Conroy
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions. Roberto Bolano
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. E. L. Konigsburg
Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in... John Updike
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be..."
I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's. Jean-Paul Sartre
George R. R. Martin quote: "Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and..."
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. George R. R. Martin
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in..."
I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve. L. M. Montgomery
She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! How impossible! Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it;... Gustave Flaubert
Mormons were the first settlers. Not sure Joseph Smith would approve of today’s topless showgirls and liquor. Though he would like the volcano at the Mirage. Everybody likes the volcano. A. J. Jacobs
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago. Nicholas Sparks
Ram Dass quote: "Healing does not mean going back to the way things were..."
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. Ram Dass
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it. Jose Saramago
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman) Dashiell Hammett
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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