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#1

“Mama gasped. “She’s pregnant?” The nurse stood. “Not pregnant. In labor. About to deliver her child… when did your water break, honey?”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

tags: family-drama, fiction-novel

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#2

“where there's a Clark, there's a Lewis”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: fiction

136 likes

#3

“Seconds are slowly, slowly passing by; like a lazy herd of elephants, heavy and laborious.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

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#4

“Because Mary, a female, is so important to Catholicism, you feel that no one should be disappointed by having a girl instead of a boy, or if they are, they might just discover one day what a big mistake they made. Mary showed the world that girls shouldn’t be underestimated.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

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#5

“Boy, you are a hothead, Bane. Your rage makes you an exceptional warrior but quite a boring conversationalist. Good thing I did not keep you for your manners and charm, eh? Now calm down, your spittle is getting all over me, my feet do not require a shower."
-Michael, The ArchAngel”
― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

tags: action, fantasy, graphic-novel, illustrated-books, inequality, lifting-the-veil, mental-construct, sci-fi, social-structures, socioeconomics

59 likes

#6

“Weightlessness was wonderful, and I was surprised at how natural it felt.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

tags: astronaut, international-space-station, iss, outer-space, space-exploration, spaceship, weightlessness

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#7

“We have a ball to attend tomorrow night. Assuming you don’t already have plans?” A slow sexy smile grew on his face.
A ball? A new gown? With him? It could be worse.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

tags: drama, fiction, novel, passion, work

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#8

“The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

tags: avenger, dark-magic, falsely-accused, fantasy, magical-world, mythical-creatures, on-the-run, romance, underworld, vampires

176 likes

#9

“Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, Table 21

tags: inspirational, relationships, romance

221 likes

#10

“In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"

Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology”
― Zack Love, The Doorman

tags: 9-11, admiration, alex-becker, attitude-in-life, contemplation, faith, fate, lenny, life-lessons, mystical-encounter, realization, short-story, short-story-collection, zack-love

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#11

“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.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

tags: humour

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#12

“Mark, some answers to your earlier questions:
No, we will not tell our Botany Team to "Go fuck themselves."
[...]
The data transfer rate just isn't enough for the size of music files, even in compressed formats. So your request for "Anything, oh god, ANYTHING but Disco" is denied. Enjoy your boogie fever.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: andy-weir, funny, mark-watney, the-martian

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#13

“Es curiosa la suerte del escritor. Al principio es barroco, vanidosamente barroco, y al cabo de los años puede lograr, si son favorables los astros, no la sencillez, que no es nada, si no la modesta y secreta complejidad.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#14

“I am not a religious man, I am a materialist, but even I can see that priests are a kind of bacteria that enable people to find life digestible.”
― Louis de Bernières, Corelli's Mandolin

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#15

“The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

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#16

“Maybe it is nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases of music, and these notions that exist in relation to our dream, must also be nothing. We will perish, but we have for hostages these divine captives who will follow us and share our fate. And death in their company is less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps less probable.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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#17

“I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#18

“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”
― Alexander Hamilton

tags: constraints, government, human-beings, human-nature, justice, mankind, passion, reason

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#19

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

5815 likes

#20

“I believe it’s fine to give up books even after a page; there’s so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain?”
― Hilary Mantel

tags: books, reading

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#21

“Duke & Sons, perpetual outsiders, had never gotten involved in politics. If the younger men had not been forced by Bernard’s death to assume junior positions in the company they might have moved into rich political offices. It would have been useful to have a Duke as the governor of Massachusetts or Maine or even New York. Now that England had New France entirely within her claws everything was very different”
― Annie Proulx, Barkskins

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#22

“This world we live in is confusing, overwhelming and painful because he has a condition known as autism.”
― Tina Traverse, Forever, Christian

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#23

“Never before in modern memory had a people who slaughtered another people, or in whose name the slaughter was carried out, been expected to live with the remainder of the people that was slaughtered, completely intermingled, in the same tiny communities, as one cohesive national society.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

tags: rwandan-genocide

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#24

“Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: accept, artemis, artemis-fowl, fowl, goblin, stupid

469 likes

#25

“The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

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#26

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
― Euripides

113 likes

#27

“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

135 likes

#28

“First we feel. Then we fall.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

221 likes

#29

“thin”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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#30

“The last time we were here,” I said, “I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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