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“What could it be in this country that transforms young, vibrant, innocent guys like me into steely-eyed, sharp-tongued, single -minded killers with “the thousand yard stare?”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“Harry wanted to knock a few teeth out of the artificially straightened set, but he resisted the urge.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets

“Gratitude is an energetic signature, which when tapped into is the ultimate power source for the creation of what we envision in our minds”
― Daniel Mangena

“Unimaginable white-hot agony stabs into his mind. Pain shouldn’t have a color, he thinks before all thoughts are gone.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“My name is Four,�� I say. “Call me ‘Stiff�� again and you and I will have a problem.”
― Veronica Roth, The Transfer

“- Te amo, Jondalar. Siento amor cuando sonríes así, con esos ojos, y muchísimo más cuando ríes. Nadie reía en el Clan y no les gustaba que yo riera. No quiero vivir nunca con gente que no me permita sonreír o reír.”
― Jean M. Auel

“There's a spirit to the western people, that is unique in the world.”
― Nikolas Schreck

“You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm”
― Jack London, To Build a Fire and Other Stories

“Maybe I’d take off my shoes and hit him, but then I’d think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, ‘OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I’m not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.�� I”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. And I could see them holding hands at football games that they do not watch. And I could see this boy throwing up in the bushes at a party house. And I could see my sister putting up with it. And I felt very bad for both of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”
― Christopher Paolini

“If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon, and the strip of highway visible -just barely �� in the hills, beyond the trees. The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood: just as Hampden, in subsequent years, would always present itself immediately to my imagination in a confused whirl of white and green and red, so the country house first appeared as a glorious blur of watercolors, of ivory and lapis blue, chestnut and burnt orange and gold, separating only gradually into the boundaries of remembered objects: the house, the sky, the maple trees. But even that day, there on the porch, with Charles beside me and the smell of wood smoke in the air, it had the quality of a memory; there it was, before my eyes, and yet too beautiful to believe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.”
― Catherine Marshall, Adventures in Prayer

“He was not concerned with whether these acts were right or wrong; they simply appealed to him as possible avenues of escape. He felt that some day there would be a black man who would whip the black people into a tight band and together they would act and end fear”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”
― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

“You live by the lash and you'll die by it.”
― James Clavell, Tai-Pan

“Corre um boato por ai, que a linda menina que vem hoje, pode ser a rainha que eles estão esperando.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“My belief is that we have an opportunity, each and every day, to make choices that can have a positive impact, or not. Each day we awake is like a reset. Decide each day to make impactful choices.”
― C. Toni Graham

“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Marco’s heart swelled with pride at his culture. Maybe it was the coquito, but his eyes teared at this beautiful Reyes celebration, heavenly food, lush green mountains, clean air, and his family’s delighted faces. He felt sorry for the stiff people at the Casino de Puerto Rico, pretending to be jíbaros and eating food half as delicious as this. Actually, no. He didn’t feel sorry for them. It was precisely what they deserved.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

“  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!�� He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
― Michael G. Kramer

“Christ, I feel like a naughty schoolboy again,�� said Alec as they walked into King’s Bench Walk. “We have just had a dressing-down by the headmaster. Strider could easily be a man handy with a cane.��
“That man Strider is a crook,�� said Bing-Wallace. “His utterances are like the product of a performance of Joseph Pujol �� Le Pétomane!��
“Who is Joseph Pujol?��
“He is a well-known French flatulist performer.��
“What?�� Alec stopped dead,
“A fartist, dear boy, a performer of farts.�� Bing-Wallace began to giggle, as did Alec.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

“But the truth was, the shape of her life wasn't like a deep U or a sharp V that you went down into and came up out of. It was a saw blade, jagged and dangerous from end to end.”
― Charles Frazier, Varina

“I love you," Laura said hopelessly. "I'd love you if you were afraid of everything in the world.”
― Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place

“Holly, do you trust me?��
Holly groaned. “Artemis, don’t ask me that. I just know one of your outrageous plans is coming.��
“Do you trust me?��
“Yes,�� Holly sighed. “I do. More than anyone.”
― Eoin Colfer

“However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”
― Charles Darwin