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I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

You turned the page, i burned the book.

For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?

We're all born an empty page.

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories....

The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Confidence is highly erotic.

Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's.

And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon

The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you.[…]You turn the page and there is nothing.

Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

Don't sit back and watch other people live out your dreams

If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.He will have nothing to live for.

Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy.

I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.

Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.

Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!

Life is made for the living.

I think everyone is strong and weak in different ways.

Gin and tonics won't say "I love you" and neither will he.

And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for he was about to join them. He was not really fetching them: They were fetching him.

You'll stay with me? Until the very end, said James. They won't be able to see you? asked Harry. We are part of you, said Sirius. Invisible to anyone else.

You know, I sometimes think that we Sort too soon....

The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air....

I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.

Kissing is just another way of talking expect without the words.

There's nothing quite like turning the page.

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

Moving on is not closure. It's not neat, and it's not about turning the page. It is about moving on, but it doesn't mean that you've left something behind.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.