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#1

“Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

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#2

“Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

39 likes

#3

“He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

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#4

“Proactive interference,” Paul would have explained. “It’s when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

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#5

“It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.”
― Ian Rankin, Knots and Crosses

tags: kindlehighlight

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#6

“It seemed to Rebus that the more expensive something was, the less of it there always seemed to be: tiny little hi-fi systems, watches without numbers, the translucent Dior ankle-socks on Michael’s feet.”
― Ian Rankin, Knots and Crosses

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#7

“I had to maintain a fine balance between going in ready for trouble and going in asking for trouble.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

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#8

“Magic came from life itself, from the interaction of nature and the elements, from the energy of all living beings, and especially of people. A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.”
― Jim butcher, Storm Front

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#9

“I listened. Listening isn’t hard to do. No one has practice at it, nowadays, but you can train yourself to pay attention to your senses if you work at it long enough.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

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#10

“It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

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#11

“Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

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#12

“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

tags: feminism, harry-dresden, humor

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#13

“EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED—THEY FOUND THE BODY”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

tags: dresden-files, easter, harry-dresden, jim-butcher

143 likes

#14

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
― Buddha, The Dhammapada

tags: buddhism, peace, words

269 likes

#15

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”
― Paul Wellstone

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#16

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, power-of-words

2105 likes

#17

“Music is only love looking for words.”
― Lawrence Durrell

tags: love, music, words

45 likes

#18

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.’ ROBIN WILLIAMS”
― Emily Herbert, Robin Williams - When the Laughter Stops 1951-2014

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#19

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

tags: friendship, inspirational, meaning

545 likes

#20

“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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#21

“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: being-right, confidence, correctness, exactitude

22 likes

#22

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
― Chief Joseph

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#23

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

3302 likes

#24

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
― Baltasar Gracián

tags: description, grammar, speech, spelling, synonyms, vocabulary, writing

161 likes

#25

“One. Word.
NO.
No is a powerful word. To me, it’s the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes

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#26

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

1164 likes

#27

“A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry, words

780 likes

#28

“The night noise of the house was precious now, the stirrings below, the children’s breath which collected in the halls and made the atmosphere of his home. He was there, if something happened, fire, burglary, sickness, he was there to help. His own breath met his children’s.”
― Richard G. Stern, Other Men's Daughters

tags: children, fatherhood, parenthood

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#29

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

tags: dead, forgotten, tess-gerritsen, the-sinner

252 likes

#30

“We are all descended from monsters.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Body Double

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