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When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black. — Charlotte Bronte

It was a silence so deep, so still, that a man could finally hear the beating of his own heart, the gentle whispers of the soul. — Kamran Pasha

going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole — Sharon Jones

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad. — Rosie Batty

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. — Emma Cline

I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away. — Dominique Moceanu

Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing. — Robert Jordan

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". — Al Kooper

Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog! — John Wayne

I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers. — Penny Reid

Maybe it had to be that way. Maybe she'd had to fight for everything, so the fight in her was permanent - like a scar or an immutable tattoo. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Her face was like a party that everyone had left. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other ... — Jean-Christophe Valtat

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse. — Jim Messina

Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done. — ASAP Rocky

Yet the truth of the matter was, sometimes the ones we loved most were the monsters that tucked us in at night. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Get the hell away from my boyfriend, witch.
Boyfriend.
Was that what I was?
I tried to smile. Instead, I blacked out. — Kami Garcia

But that was always the case. People hardly ever saw their children as they really were. — Rohinton Mistry

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it. — Sarah Addison Allen

I found that things weren't going well upstairs.
Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid. — Rick Riordan

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe. — Rolf Harris

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — H.L. Mencken

Girl that age ought not to have so many troubles, but she did. Looking at it that way, them two was about made for each other. — Bryn Greenwood

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. — Jim Henson

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author. — Steven Levy

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. — Betty Grable

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin? — Kelly Braffet

I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore. — China Mieville

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation. — Karan Bajaj

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him. — Warren Zevon

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled. — Raymond L. Atkins

How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical — Alissa Nutting

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me. — Alexander Shulgin

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke. — Kelly Lynch

she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself. — Joan G. Robinson

When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. — Eminem

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was. — Radha Mitchell

The was something very satisfying about a smile that had to be earned. — Kasie West

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. — Louis Farrakhan

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean. — Torrie Wilson

The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means
Poor Justin! — Sarah Strohmeyer

Perhaps Break is a lot weaker than I always thought he was. However, I'm sure that he's a whole lot stronger than he thinks he is. — Jun Mochizuki

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane? — Terry Pratchett

'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer. — Rachel Kushner

she'd let him know just what that was — Nora Roberts

I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene. — Adria Arjona

The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me. — Joe Walsh

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both — Laurell K. Hamilton

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old. — Dixie Carter

{Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted. — Kingsley Amis

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of. — Philip Reeve

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect. — E.B. White

At that age, I was, first and foremost, a thing to be judged, and that shifted the power in every interaction onto the other person. The — Emma Cline

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being. — Zoltan Istvan

I was once that which you are, and what I am you will also be. — Masaccio

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old. — K.d. Lang

If I'd done that today, you would have lost control. The only reason why you didn't was because I treated you like my husband, not a monster. — Cora Reilly

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. — Arthur Smith

We shouldn't compare the success of two kings knowing that one was born in the palace while the other in the street... — Assegid Habtewold

It was like I woke up when he was born. It was like he had nothing to do with that night. — Liane Moriarty

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing. — Chris Pratt

No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use. — Knut Hamsun

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human. — A.J. Vega

It was vision that dulled trust. It was vision that uplifted trust. Let them see how. — Ray McFarland

'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message. — Madonna Ciccone

I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened. — Piper Faust

I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life. — Nina LaCour

He found that worry was a completely renewable resource. The more he had, the more he got. — Alex London

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing. — Minnie Driver

the greatest thing about having so many laws was that you could pick and choose, and move on to the next when the last lost its magic. — Jennifer Traig

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. — Edward Norton

The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible. — James S.A. Corey

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time. — Mahbod Seraji

I didn't feel that there was much goodness in me. — Garry Disher

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107) — Irvin D. Yalom

Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal. — Neal Shusterman

What was in the bags?" she asked softly.
"Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The kind of trouble that was the downfall of many men. — Maya Rodale

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. — Terry Pratchett

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American. — Elaine Sciolino

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results. — William Golding

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person. — Amy Lichtenhan

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. — Rachel Higginson

He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical. — Kerry Greenwood

She hesitated, torn between excitement and terror, amazed that she was actually considering it. — Nicholas Sparks

I'm not sure I've turned your Commander inside out, but I can assure you if that iron skillet was empty, I would bring him down a peg or two. — Julia Mills

She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him. — Marissa Meyer

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. — Emmanuelle Beart

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life. — Mac Miller

Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn't have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth. — Rebecca Brooks

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within — Jeffrey Eugenides

The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. — Zora Neale Hurston