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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
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If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
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It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
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"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
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Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?"
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.
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I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
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Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.
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Willy Wonka: "I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!"
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there.
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Life is more fun if you play games.
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I've heard tell, that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
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Nobody loves only once.
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Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
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How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.
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But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?
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What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?
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When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.
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I love tunnels. They're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.
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Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
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To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.
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It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others.
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That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?
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Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.
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A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.
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We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
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He remembered the first time he’d kissed her, in the greenhouse, how he’d finally gotten it, finally understood the way someone’s mouth against yours could undo you, leave you spinning and breathless. That all the expertise in the world, any techniques you knew or had learned, went out the window when it was the right person you were kissing.
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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
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But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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Memories are worse than bullets.
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