I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every...
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Philip Pullman
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Leo Tolstoy
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
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Cassandra Clare
The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.
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Rachel Vincent
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Viktor E. Frankl
More Quotes By Maria Semple
Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?
That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life....
Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sweeter than seeing a friend is that friend canceling on me.
