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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
I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.
— Dominique Moceanu
Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!
— John Wayne
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
{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
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.
— Zoltan Istvan
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
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
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
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
