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“Some people say
Rhyming is but a sin.
Little sins are fun
So try, before you bin.”
― Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

“In contrast, Anderson was trying hard not to show his brimful-teary eyes. He felt his face heating. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his handkerchief and blew his nose. At the same time, anger began to grow in the pit of his stomach.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“Most of us can find our way out of the wilderness without Moses.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“Although I contemplated suicide many times, and developed concrete plans once or twice, I never gave up. Rather than take the emergency exit, I searched relentlessly for remedies and coping mechanisms. Although often feeling worn down and deeply discouraged, I persisted in hoping better times might come.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“My involvement must be kept secret, no matter what, Rollie. Even if it backfires and you face prison or worse. Got it?”
“You may count on me, Mr. President, as long as you promise to remember, you have the power to pardon criminals.”
“Yes, I do, don’t I?” RonJohn snickers. “I almost forgot about my convenient little presidential power.”
“We’ll see that the campaign gets a fresh and ample supply of cash. God bless the Supreme Court and Citizens United”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal High

“I hope these words will be of some help and comfort to those who read them.
Nobody knows when they will be tested and there are no right or wrong answers, we are all of us lost when tragedy comes to call. All we can ever do is to be there, give love and do the best we can, often that is all it needs.”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

“Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“boy,”
― Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

“I would rather be dead than not read”
― Annie Proulx

“Goals want to realize themselves.”
― Zoltan Andrejkovics, The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team

“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

“The people of the United States are entitled to assume that their President is telling the truth. The pattern of misrepresentation and half-truths that emerges from our investigation reveals a presidential policy cynically based on the premise that the truth itself is negotiable.”
― Carl Bernstein, The Final Days

“things”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“The heavier the burden, the longer they look at you. And Miss Julie looked at me a long, long time.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, Of Love and Dust

“We seemed to have arrived at a reality only to abandon it or exchange it for something that claimed to be another reality.”
― Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion

“Sorry I gave you a fright." Howl seemed more used to holding babies than Sophie was. He rocked Morgan soothingly and stared at him. Morgan stared, rather balefullt, back. "My word, he's ugly" Howl said. "Chip off the old block" "Howl!" said Sophie. But she did not sound angry.”
― Diana Wynne Jones

“Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.”
― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“plant domestication is not a matter of hunter-gatherers’ domesticating a single plant and otherwise carrying on unchanged with their nomadic lifestyle.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition?”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“eardrums”
― Wilson Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys

“It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose