I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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Andrew Solomon
Stairs, " Valkyrie said, disappointed." Not just ordinary stairs, " Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs."" Really?"" Oh, yes." She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?"" They just are."" In what way?"" In a magicky way." She...
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Derek Landy
What ho! " I said." What ho! " said Motty."What ho! What ho! "" What ho! What ho! What ho! " After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
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P.g. Wodehouse
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
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Pete Wentz
Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.'' Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start...
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Derek Landy
More Quotes By Ian Mcewan
When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself...
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had...
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.
