"My entire life, I saw myself as the beautiful damsel or the graceful maiden. I was the princess searching for her knight. But with my newfound abilities, I finally discovered that, after all this time, I was the powerful witch."
Christina L. Barr
"Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that."
Oscar Wilde
"A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home."
Carl Burns
"I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, couldn't itself be told."
John Crowley
"To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made."
Karen Thompson Walker
"I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance . . . Which always leads to another season of trouble . . . Which always leads to disillusionment . . . Which always leads to more joy— if you hang in there."
Kurt Bubna
"A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was beingaccomplished."
Charlotte Brontë
"Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor."
Anonymous
"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."
Anonymous
"It's easy to move on when things are so bad that you can't stand them anymore. It's harder when they're just mediocre."
Catherine Jones Payne
"Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?"
John Ringo
"I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool."
Celine Dion
"People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains."
Paolo Giordano
"Or deep down, maybe there was more. Maybe I wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue.Maybe. I don’t know. But I was careful never to give myself away."
Jay Asher
"Everyone says,Come to your senses, and I do, of you.Every touch electric, every taste you,every smell, even burning sugar, everycry and laugh. Toothpicked samplesat the farmers’ market, every melon,plum, I come undone, undone."
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