If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
Brett Ratner
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Jason Mraz
You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?
Cassandra Clare
He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.
Charles Dickens
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
Mark Twain
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Linda McCartney
Love is a hole in the heart.
Ben Hecht
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
Tim Heidecker
How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.
C.S. Lewis
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
Charles Schumer
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles
It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.
George Eliot
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein
I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
Kathy Griffin
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll
I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.
Avril Lavigne
Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.
Thomas Jefferson
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Ally Condie
People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing
Jane Austen
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
John Green
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
Henry David Thoreau
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Those people speak most who do not have much to say.
Leo Tolstoy
Your darkest enemy is the one who bows you down to the floor like a servant and wastes half your life in meaningless rituals. This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.
Orson Scott Card
And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.
He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
My wife's got a face like a saint a Saint Bernard.
Rodney Dangerfield
If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange
Paulo Coelho
whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm.yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die.
No llegaremos nunca a conseguir una sociedad cristiana hasta que la mayorÃa de nosotros lo desee de verdad. Y no lo desearemos de verdad hasta que nos hagamos totalmente cristianos.
To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.
It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.
Bertrand Russell
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
Jodi Picoult
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson
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