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“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“It's a dangerous thing, going out your front door.”

“Because the road might sweep you off on some adventure without time for breakfast?”

“Well… I was thinking more of the monsters, but yes, that too.”
― Rick Fox, Fate's Pawn

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“As the boat filled and capsized, the aluminum boom flew across the cockpit and hit the side of Tiger’s head.
The world was cold, blue, and shimmering. Thoughts swam through her mind like a school of tropical fish, moving in unison then darting off in all directions.”
― Grahame Shannon, Tiger and the Robot

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“They kissed for years, it seemed, and yet when he broke contact, it felt like he had kissed her for mere seconds. She wanted more from him, but he let go of her and backed away.
Irritated with him for taking advantage of her sensibilities and with herself for succumbing to her baser urges as she always did with him, she crossed her arms over her chest again. “Is that all then? Have you nothing more to say?”
“I think I’ve said everything, except . . . I’m an arse, Julia.”
Her eyes narrowed of their own accord. “Go on.”
― Anna Durbin, King of Wands

“Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

“I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“It Is Our Duty To Remember”
― Steve Snyder, Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

“It was hard to get lost in Missoula even if you wanted to. Wherever you were, all you had to do to get your bearings was look around and find the big letter M, embossed in white halfway up the steep shoulder of grass that reared on the south bank of the Clark Fork River. Though only a hill, it was called Mount Sentinel and if you had the legs and lungs and inclination to hike the trail that zigzagged up it, you could stand by the M and gaze out across the town at a travel-brochure shot of forest and mountain dusted from early fall with snow.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Divide

“winter gone, mountains clear, water sparkles.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
― Oscar Wilde

“تنها يک مساله اساسي فلسفی وجود دارد و آنهم خودکشی ست . تشخيص اينکه زندگی ارزش زيستن دارد يا به زحمت زيستنش نمی ارزد , در واقع پاسخ صحيحي است به مساله اساسی فلسفه . باقی چيزها : مثلا اينکه جهان دارای سه بعد و عقل دارای نه يا دوازده مقوله است مسايل بعدی و دست دوم را تشکيل می دهد .


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― آلبر كامو

“I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!”
― Gary Paulsen

“Be who you were meant to be and not what you've allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Mavis as she wavered over following her dream.
from 'Lifesong”
― Christine M. Knight

“All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Only learn what God says. His words are divine messages, which you are free and independent to interpret.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

“بعيداً عن العقل وفي الهاوية المقدسة للقلب أتوازن مرتجفاً”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Quite the social butterfly, Gilbert Alwyn Jones operated an open house policy when it came to friends and family... However, the unexpected visitor now standing on his verandah fell into neither category.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“She was knowingly punishing herself. That was the only reasonable explanation. There was no use in acting naive. What happened earlier in the day was proof that she was going to give in to his flirtation. It appeared she'd thrown caution to the wind and opened her arms to embrace everything that could go wrong in her life. What's one more problem to add to the pile?”
― Emem Uko, The Place That Gave

“Son los cadetes de la Gascuña
que a Carbón tienen por capitán;
son quimeristas, son embusteros;
y a la vez nobles, firmes y enteros,
blasón viviente por doquier van,
son los cadetes de la Gascuña,
que a Carbón tienen por capitán.
Ojos de buitre, pies de cigüeña,
dientes de lobo, fiero ademán;
cuando arremeten a la canalla,
no ciñen casco ni fina malla:
rotos chambergos luciendo van…
Ojos de buitre, pies de cigüeña,
dientes de lobo, fiero ademán.
Punza-barrigas y Rompe-hocicos
son dulces motes que ellos se dan.
Ebrios de gloria, sueñan conquistas,
corren garitos, dan entrevistas;
donde hayan riñas, allí estarán…
Punza-barrigas y Rompe-hocicos
son dulces motes que ellos se dan.
Son los cadetes de la Gascuña
que a Carbón tienen por capitán.
Tras las coquetas corren ansiosos,
hacen cornudos a los celosos;
su gloria al viento los parches dan.
¡Son los cadetes de la Gascuña
que a Carbón tienen por capitán!”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“The director mentions the whispers about Clifton's sexual orientation, a supposed gig on a porn site years ago, a rumor about a very famous actor and a tryst in Santa Barbara and Clifton's denial in a Rolling Stone cover story about the very famous actor's new movie which Clifton had a small part in: 'We're so into girls it's ridiculous.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“Neurology’s favourite word is ‘deficit’, denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
― George Eliot

“why?” he had asked him. “This guy came up to me in San Diego and said he’d like to know all about the Corregidor and he’d pay.” “But don’t you understand about treason? About betraying your country?” “Hell, all he wanted was a few facts and figures. So what? What’s the difference? We can blast the hell outta the goddamn Commies anytime we like. The Corregidor’s the greatest carrier afloat! It was a caper and I wanted to see if I could do it and they paid on the dot….”
― James Clavell, Noble House

“Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“She kissed his faceplate then looked away, embarrassed. "That was stupid. Don't tell anyone I did that."

"Don't tell anyone I liked it." Beck smiled.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Have you noticed her name?"
Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. "The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?"
"Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond