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“Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Mi problema consiste en que siempre que percibo o hago realidad algo que creía que quería, sea una novia, un piso, un empleo, educación, dinero y así sucesivamente, simplemente me parece tan aburrido y estéril, que ya no lo puedo valorar.”
― Irvin Welsh

“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome
The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last, you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that Don Quixote could do.”
― Martin Amis (Author)

“...these bizarre images... reminded her of the slides of exposed spinal levels in Travis’s office. They hung on the enamelled walls like the codes of insoluble dreams, the keys to a nightmare in which she had begun to play a more willing and calculated role.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.”
― Albert Camus

“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Try to look unimportant. They may be low on ammo.”
― Lee Child, Jack Reacher's Rules

“Whatever you do," Seth said around a chewy mouthful, "try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount of Yahtzee games in a row before you become a lunatic."
"I'll keep that in mind.”
― Brandon Mull, Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

“Friend. The word was like a bucket of ice water. He drew back slightly, breaking the kiss and resting his forehead on hers.”
― Susan Mallery, Best of My Love

“You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“This book is for those that found love when everyone thought they were too young to know what it was.
We should all be lucky enough to find our forever so soon.”
― Alexa Riley, Shielding Lily

“I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said.

"DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT."

"I learned it from you," I told him.

"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“As long as I'm with you, I know exactly who I am.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Dark, cold, and snowbound, Russia has the sort of climate in which the spirit of Christmas burns brightest.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“Shy, she’s yours, that’s what you say. Control your woman,” High demanded. “Get her ass out.”
My eyes went to Shy to see him looking at High, and he wasn’t looking pissed. He was looking reflective. Then he said, “Tab and I don’t play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn’t go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you’ll deal with me.”
God, I loved my guy.”
― Kristen Ashley, Own the Wind

“When my father saw the jacket, he grinned wide and spent a minute looking over each and every patch.”
― Ernest Cline, Armada

“undying love.....”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore