I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island; for the Neverland is always more or less and island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys." Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To... SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they? SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back. SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe... SARAH J. MAAS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t... SARAH J. MAAS Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to. SARAH J. MAAS My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant. SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a... SARAH J. MAAS We need hope, or else we cannot endure. SARAH J. MAAS You mistake patience for forbearance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of... DANIEL YANEZ oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- ... 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AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?' 'You're bitching about ... LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe... SHARIF MOHAMED Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As Cassian drew twin Illyrian blades, the sight of them like home, and said to Eris with lethal calm... SARAH J. MAAS I felt a numb shock as I drove home anxious to get my chocolate flowers and wondering how my mother ... JORI NUNES I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down. SARAH J. MAAS I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am. SARAH J. MAAS And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I fel... SARAH J. MAAS I needed not to be dead when I agreed.” “You needed not to be alone. SARAH J. MAAS She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want... SARAH J. MAAS Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.” “Oh?” I turn at the wais... J.A. REDMERSKI We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Time is life. Time for birth, time for death. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ... REBECCA HARRIS [Charlie is dying:] After what seemed a long while, but hadn’t been, Marsh gave Paulette’s ... EDWARD FAHEY Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. GEORGE R.R. 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Halfway through high school, I moved from Bra... J.M. RICHARDS Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’r... J.M. RICHARDS When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bra... J.M. RICHARDS I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is ... J.M. RICHARDS I Can Be Alone and it's Okay. J.M. RICHARDS I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay. J.M. RICHARDS You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that,... J.M. RICHARDS As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, stro... J.M. RICHARDS Being in love with your best friend is problematic. J.M. RICHARDS You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how st... J.M. DARHOWER Um, you don’t have to join me, but if you’re looking for a table, there are a couple good seats ... J.M. RICHARDS Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day. J.M. MCDERMOTT The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see... J.M. SYNGE As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made... J.M. SYNGE In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. J.M. SYNGE The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do. J.M. COETZEE I am not the we of anyone J.M. COETZEE Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l... J.M. COETZEE The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse. —ALEXANDER S. ... J.M. CARLISLE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp... J.M. RICHARDS Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything... J.M. SULLIVAN With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to... J.M. COETZEE Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ... J.M. RICHARDS I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again... J.M. RICHARDS It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di... J.M. RICHARDS Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is... J.M. COETZEE Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der... J.M. COETZEE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence. J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But... J.M. DARHOWER The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets. J.M. COETZEE I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st... J.M. COETZEE Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o... J.M. LEDGARD From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth . J.M. COETZEE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ... J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos... J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb... J.M. DARHOWER I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf... J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose. J.M. CAMPOS I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a ... J.M. STEWART The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot... J.M. COETZEE Adam delayed only a second longer before traversing into the uncertain future, crossing the hidden d... J.M. NORTHUP He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo... J.M. COETZEE Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo... J.M. COETZEE I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what... J.M. COETZEE Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.” �... J.M. DARHOWER Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö... J.M. COETZEE That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. JAMES BARRIE