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“Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?Her stomach twisted. No. She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadnt had the gift before? That she couldnt have used it against him? I would ne...”
“If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind.”
“Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when its a little closer to being perfect.”
“When it comes to love, Princess, rules blur, and traditions fade,”
“Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.'[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.”
“Pain was a torn piece of paper.”
“I wish I could run away, Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients rooms, darting around like little ants. I cant leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway.Wh...”
“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”
“I felt despair. The words overused and banalified now, despair, but its a serious word, and Im using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture a weird yearning for death combined with a c...”
“Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after you know after the funeral we havent had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping youd be more mature now that Juds gone, ...”
“What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of...”
“Phaedra of Alonsos death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.”
“Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.”
“Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the...”
“As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential...”
“She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.”
“The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl...”
“I just wonder Isnt it better to start as a monster and become a hero? Isnt that what creates belief? The idea that someone can change?”
“Isaac dared not move and she did not stir either, both staring up at the canopy above. If he reached over, if he no, no. It was better to keep a small shield between them, to preserve the little pr...”
“Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, every pilgrimage from one end of the earth to the other I was looking for you.”
