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“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.”
― Maggi Richard

“I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

“I realized that the one person who could break my heart is the only one who should have it.”
― Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive

“Seriously, Taylor—do you know who I am?” he demanded.

She smiled at this. “You celebrities actually say that? That’s cute.”
― Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive

“You’re here.”

“I am.”

Jason boldly took in the way she looked.

“I take it you don’t often wear that dress in court.”

“Probably not a good idea.”

He grinned. “Yes, I can imagine it would be somewhat awkward standing before a judge who has a huge hard-on.”

“Is that the effect this dress has?”

Taylor’s eyes traveled downward, to the zipper of Jason’s pants, and he was momentarily caught off guard by her bluntness.

Her eyes sparkled, amused.

“You’re blushing, Jason. That’s cute.”
― Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive

“First Pallas and now you,” the gray-haired man said, shaking his head at Nick. “It’s like I’m running a goddamn dating service around here.”
― Julie James, A Lot like Love

“I love you,” she said softly.

Jason's arms tightened around her. He grinned sleepily. “I know.”

Taylor drifted off contentedly. Until through the darkness, she heard a low, sneaky whisper.

“Mrs. Taylor Andrews . . .”

She didn't bother to open her eyes.

“Still not gonna happen.”
― Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“For some reason, the two of us arguing was like some sick form of foreplay.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“You weren't kidding, Chloe. That is one beautiful bastard. I wouldn't kick him out of my bed. Or car. Or dressing room. Or elevator, or-”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“I'm two seconds away from castrating you with my heel.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bastard

“I'd definitely found my equal, the woman who made my life a living hell and lived to antagonize me. A woman whose mouth I wanted to tape shut...every bit as much as I wanted to kiss it.”
― Christina Lauren, Beautiful Bitch

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood