If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
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Jodi Picoult
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
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Paula Danziger
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.
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Lionel Shriver
Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
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Markus Zusak
Power comes at a price, love, " Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square." What power?"" All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the...
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Anthony Ryan
More Quotes By Mary Harris Jones
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their...
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
