Quotes From "Afterlife" By Melissa Jennings

Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt.
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Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt. Melissa Jennings
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My dreams were always the same I could see myself laughing . I was standing somewhere in a forest a raindrop rolled down a branch and fell on my nose . My hair was a sparkling red color and I was wearing a white flowing ball gown made from silk. I could feel him the one I loved staring at me intensely . His eyes as gold as the sun . I could hear him saying my love Fleur . you are everything to me. His fingertips lightly shivering as he touched my face beckoning for me to come closer. I don't know what I would do if I lost you . "Are you sure you want to be with me?" My body protested as I fought for him to stay but he never did. As soon as I woke up his presence was gone. Isabella Kruger
As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics...
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As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all. Isabella Kruger
All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've...
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All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened. Claudia Gray
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The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear. Claudia Gray
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I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you, " I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you."" Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it. Claudia Gray
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As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat. Isabella Kruger
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I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in. Melissa Jennings
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It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much longer than it had. Michael Monroe
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There are twenty-five thousand, six hundred and twelve things you don't know about me. I'll tell you one each day."" That means it will take you seventy-plus years to know everything about me. When I turn one hundred, that will be the last one. Though I expect by then you'll know the very first and very last thing you need to know about me, the only one that matters." ~ Jon Forte Joey W. Hill
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You think I ever expected to find a woman with so many of the things I wanted in a relationship? Your sexual nature, your spiritual outlook, your beauty, inside and out. And some things I didn't even realize I wanted until I started taking your class. Every week was the opportunity to learn something new about you, to see if it fit the mold. But most weeks what I learned broke it, and created an even better one."" Your going to take my breath away."" That's all right. You can have mine." ~Jon Forte to Rachael Madison . Joey W. Hill
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If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones. Michael Monroe
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A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying. Michael Monroe
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You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser. Michael Monroe
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Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in? Michael Monroe
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There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it. Michael Monroe
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Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere. Michael Monroe
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You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will. Michael Monroe
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Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war. Michael Monroe
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We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when. Michael Monroe
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As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies. Michael Monroe
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A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards. Michael Monroe
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Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the truth, we must allow others to choose their own beliefs. You can’t force anyone to believe something they don’t, anyway. Michael Monroe
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Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we’re stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn’t be worse than this one, though. Michael Monroe
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He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time. Michael Monroe
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Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane. Michael Monroe
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Well, for one, you walk around like you’re so much better than everyone else. We’re all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin’ in your eyes, I guess. You’re the high and mighty one and I ain’t fit to drink your piss. Michael Monroe
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We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off. Michael Monroe
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People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it. Michael Monroe
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Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place. Michael Monroe
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The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human. Michael Monroe
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A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty. Michael Monroe
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Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning. Michael Monroe
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That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots. Michael Monroe
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Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them. Michael Monroe
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We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren’t the only two alternatives. Michael Monroe
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That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody. Michael Monroe
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We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was. Claudia Gray
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I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too. Melissa Jennings
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Troy sat down next to Sherri, examining her tray. "Are you going to eat that?" he asked. "I know what went in there." He smiled, looking mysterious. Troy's mother worked in the cafeteria. Sherri immediately dropped the turkey roll. Amy LaPalme
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The sun does not rise when you need it most. You rise instead. Melissa Jennings
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Can you really talk to the dead?" She gave me the look that I was familiar with by now: equal parts derision, skepticism, and curiosity. “How much would it be? I mean, how much do you charge? Amy LaPalme
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Death is the start of a beginning, life is the start of the end, and the cycle continues forever." AFTERLIFE - TIM I GURUNG/AUTHOR Tim I. Gurung
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McKenzie was Caroline's primary wingman. They had matching Coach bags to prove it. Amy LaPalme