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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

“at that picture, you would think that no one died. You would think we were happy all the time: my mother, my baby, and”
― Rebecca Wells, Ya-Yas in Bloom

“Now I want nothing more than to grow old with you,” Matthew said.”
― Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life

“Wyrd bið ful aræd”
― Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North

“You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“She's looking around the forest, as though if she can prove it isn't magic, then nothing else is, either. Which is stupid. All forests are magic.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“You tell a lot of lies, Ms. Berenson,” he said. Berenson said nothing. Neagley said, “She’s Human Resources. It’s what they do.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“I learned that it is important to know not only what to hold on to and what to let go of, but what to go back for.”
― Graeme Simsion, Two Steps Forward

“Despereaux turned. He looked up and into the Head Mouse's eyes. They were dark eyes, deep and sad and frightened. And as Despereaux looked into them, his heart thudded once, twice.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“So, you are not so much interested in exploring your feelings about Joy's betrayal. Or the failure of your relationship. You are merely giving me a tour of the museum.'
'The museum? ... I don't follow you.'
'Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation.'
'I, uh...'
'We all superintend such a place, I suppose,' she said, 'although some of us are more painstaking curators than others. That is the category in which I would certainly put you, Dominick. You are a meticulous steward of the pain and injustices people have visited upon you.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

“wanted life, but deep in her heart of hearts she only wanted”
― Iris Johansen, Blood Game

“Poppy: Um, can we cross running water?
James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.”
― L. J. Smith, Secret Vampire / Daughters of Darkness / Spellbinder

“People, generally, suck.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

“I never meant to fall in love with you. But I did. I felt it the first night I made love to you. I tried to walk away then because I've never felt so lost and yet so fucking found as I felt that night looking into your eyes as I moved inside you.”
― Samantha Young, Before Jamaica Lane

“the Rey family grave at the”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, A Secret Kept

“No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Redemption of Callie & Kayden

“God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end?
- She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain.
Someone had to stop Them”
― James Rollins, Altar of Eden

“المدينة تصير عالمًا عندما تحبُ أحد سكانها
..
والقاهرة مدينة باهتة الألوان
..
مليئة بالتناقضات والمصاعب والعيوب”
― محمد فرحات

“We say that we are rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We,their own lords, quarrel among ourselves, and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children.”
― Philippa Gregory

“Life is too short to be the same person everyday.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.”
― John Irving

“She's like his spirit animal, a gentle, odd, spritely being who I'm pretty sure has a storage space full of fairy dust.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“All you had to see was the bumper sticker on their Prius—VOTING IS LIKE DRIVING: R GOES BACKWARD, D GOES FORWARD—to know we were going to be all right.”
― Joe Hill, Strange Weather

“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn’t lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went — another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns — I wouldn’t find her”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“Man, that was impressive. You must've jumped three feet in the air. What did you think I was, leatherface or something?
-Robbie Goodfell”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.”
“If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale