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“Good,’ he said. ‘Cause Maggie’s all the nightmare I can take.’I smiled. ‘Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me.’He gave me a one-fingered salute.”
“Use your wish,” I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. “Please.”“If I do,” he replies softly, “I’ll lose you.”
“It’s not too late,” he says. “Zahra, I—”“Sh.” I lay a finger across his lips. “Don’t say it. You will marry Caspida, and you will learn to love each other. You will live a happy life, long after my...”
“God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.”
“When you learn not to want things so badly life comes to you.”
“Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.”
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
“My debt to you Beloved Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.”
“If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.”
“Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.”
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
“There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me my beautiful unknown.”
“In the war upon the powers of darkness prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon both in aggressive war upon them and their works in the deliverance of men from their power and against them as a h...”
“When caught reading the Bible W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.”
“What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone.“That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it with.”He nodded easily, as if this same thought had occurred to him. “I ...”
“You clumsy wench—Gods above! Are you trying to rob me, girl?” The nobleman seizes my wrist and yanks it from his pocket. My hand comes up with the pipe clenched in it. I stare at him, horrified.“I ...”
“Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart ...”
“Country’s friggin’ dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.”
“I am somebody. I am a somebody. I am a child of God. I may not be educated but I am somebody. I may not have any money but I am somebody. I may not eat steak every day but I am somebody. I may not ...”
“Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of hig...”
