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    Paula Danziger
    “When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
    ― Paula Danziger
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    Julie James
    “Seriously, Taylor—do you know who I am?” he demanded.

    She smiled at this. “You celebrities actually say that? That’s cute.”
    ― Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive
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    Julia Quinn
    “Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”
    ― Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven
    tags: brothers, friends, humor, love
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    Julia Quinn
    “Love is blind,” Harriet quipped.

    “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.”
    ― Julia Quinn, A Night Like This
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    Julia Quinn
    “If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,” Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I will kill you.”
    There was a collective gasp, and Daisy faked a swoon, sliding elegantly into Iris, who promptly stepped aside and let her hit the floor.
    “Oh, come now,” Mr. Grimston said. “Surely it won’t come to pistols at dawn.”
    “I’m not talking about a duel,” Marcus said. “I mean I will kill you right here.”
    ― Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven
    tags: duel, romance
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    Julia Quinn
    “Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
    ― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You
    tags: romance
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    Julia Quinn
    “When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”
    ― Julia Quinn, What Happens in London
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: rhett-butler-to-scarlett
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: childbirth, death, humor, taxes, truth
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  • #13
    “Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”
    ― Linda Howard, After the Night
    tags: romance, sobriquet
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    Bauvard
    “Spending one’s last moments prostrated before the toilet is the supreme act of repentance. It allows one to relieve a heavy inner burden.”
    ― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
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    John Steinbeck
    “A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: nature, sunset
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    Anna Godbersen
    “The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”
    ― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
    tags: beauty, colors, first-love, love, sunset
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: sunset
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    Jarod Kintz
    “If I could lick the sunset, I’ll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
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    Sharon Kay Penman
    “…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.”
    ― Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
    tags: sunset
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Two Sisters
    tags: darkness, eena, harrowbethain-saga, richelle, richelle-goodrich, sunrise, sunset
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  • #22
    “...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...”
    ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
    tags: heart, horizon, land, poetry-quotes-love, sail-away, thoughts, wind
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: funny
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  • #27
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, humour
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    Rodney Dangerfield
    “What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”
    ― Rodney Dangerfield
    tags: funny, humour, infidelity, parenthood, parenting, sexuality
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    Wendy Wax
    “She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.”
    ― Wendy Wax, The Accidental Bestseller
    tags: reading-books
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