There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?
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Related So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were al... SARAH DESSEN I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone e... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A... MAISIE WILLIAMS 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there wer... THE WEEKND Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I. ART ROONEY I was very proud of them. There were seven of them out there who were playing their last game . . . ... AMY LITTERAL Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS We were disappointed they wouldn't even review it. All we asked them was to just look at it, and the... BRIAN CALLAGHAN Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoar... GENEVIEVE COGMAN There were so many versions out there, and he (Roosevelt) was bothered by it. He asked my father to ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver... MAGGIE STIEFVATER ['Brightside'] was just kind of all improvised and fun, ... They were like kids in a candy store for... ERIC ROBERTS The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of int... DONALD TRUMP Offensively, they were going crazy, and defensively, they were all over the place. It was kind of an... JACK LEASURE It really made it exciting for the kids. I could tell that the parents were really excited as well. ... JEANNINE MUNEYYIRCI When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY Not true, ... They were best friends. They were together all the time, all four of them. John and Pa... CYNTHIA LENNON I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to... FLORENCE SEIDELMAN There were two sides to this, and they were all trying to pull the strings they had politically. I t... CRAIG COHOON I know they were embarrassed and they all came out to play and put it together today. So I'm happy f... C. VIVIAN STRINGER They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands o... BARRY PEPPER And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that we... BIBLE Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT They knew [Webb] was the main target, so they were double-teaming and triple-teaming him all night. GARY BELLERBY They're all in different stages of critical. A couple of areas are failing and a couple more were no... ERIC QUINN I could sense all week that they were ready. They were like a Kentucky thoroughbred. They knew what ... DAVE HOOVER Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought wer... ALEXEI MAXIM RUSSELL We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they wer... EVAN RACHEL WOOD So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremen... FRAN ALLEN My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it... MARCO RUBIO Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once ... LIBBA BRAY They were sitting down. I asked if they needed anything, and they asked for a cup of coffee. They sa... KRISTIN QUILES It was a great moment for Michigan and for Michigan softball. I was so proud of those kids. They wer... CAROL HUTCHINS They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands o... BARRY PEPPER He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they w... STEPHEN KING I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ... MAX VON ESSEN They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I... LEMONY SNICKET It was a big thrill for them. I took a peek up there after I crossed home plate, and they were all j... CHRIS DENORFIA In all these major cities, the police were all white, a big part of them living outside the central ... FRED HARRIS It was the saving of the project that we managed to get buy-in from all the managers that mattered r... TIM OLIVER He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a great day for us. All 12 players were there and they did a super job of performing. DUANE ZAUNER Hearing the human spirit stories of her experience was striking. She treated so many victims and the... BETTY ANN DUFFY It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Guys like him? They were the worst kind. All looks and no heart. Guys not like him? They were all de... RUCY BAN That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as... SHERWOOD ANDERSON I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have b... TYLER JOSEPH They were all very strong candidates. They all had strengths that were appealing and any one of them... SAM CASTREE When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportio... JOHN JAY CHAPMAN It was a mess. There was water everywhere. But he was so happy. It took him all day to wash three pl... JANIE BESS I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best. SUZANNE COLLINS They were all enemy. They were all to be destroyed. LT WILLIAM L. CALLEY JR. They were all enemy. They were all to be destroyed. LT WILLIAM L. CALLEY, JR. They all played well. It was really an offensive game. Probably 90 % of the game was offensive and t... BILL BESTWICK Most agencies do not know how many systems they've got, because they were all locally acquired and t... DALLAS BISHOFF All five starters made all- district and all-city, and four of them made one or another all-state te... GARY PIPPEN This is a new beginning for us, ... We've been very happy with the people we were able to acquire. T... DALE TALLON It wasn't anything they were doing. It was all us. We weren't guarding the 3-point line, and we knew... DWAYNE MITCHELL They were the No. 2 seed, it was in their gym and their fans were really loud, but I was really prou... HERB GRACE There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows a... SIR BEVIS OF HAMPTOUN I'm blown away. I heard they were going to be all right, but they were awesome. MASON DYER Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol... AARON SWARTZ The scores were a little lower that what the kids are used to getting. But they were lower for every... LESLIE GOMES I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its s... MARK TWAIN I was so busy during those seven months that sometimes I didn't have that much time to watch what ot... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these rea... BEN SILBERMANN All the senators were very willing to make it happen so they were very positive and understood how m... ELIZABETH GALLAGHER Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. HERMANN HESSE Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all... MARGARET ATWOOD They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, ... C. JOYBELL C. They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star... DEYTH BANGER I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t... DEYTH BANGER He had never been to a party like this and it struck him as a little bizarre, like a feverish nightm... AUSTIN GROSSMAN Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have... CARSON MCCULLERS The glasses were fine in the beginning, it was like you knew they were there, but they didn't bother... AARON GREEN They were great. We have been depleted all year, we didn't have all of our guys, but we didn't quit ... RANDY JEPSON It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about h... JENNIFER BROWN I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play... GEORGE STEVENS But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken fr... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There were 161 detainees in all and they were being treated in an inappropriate way ... they were be... HUSSEIN KAMAL And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the... BIBLE The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same m... RUSSELL HOBAN I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and ... LYNN FLEWELLING The two were so intertwined with each other. They were perfect for each other and it was a great mar... IVAN GOLDE There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror fi... JOHN LANDIS People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It'... COLIN FIRTH Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making shots.... CRAIG AUSTRIE I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so su... ADAM SILVERA They came in with a different game plan than what we were expecting and executed it like they were s... DONALD WALKER We practiced what they were going to do all week so nothing was a surprise to us. We were able to ca... JOE EVANS I think all they were doing was talking to the troops and letting them know what to expect, ALLISON BARBER They were very eager to be back at school, ... Im sure they were a little anxious because they were ... ALTON JOHNSON They're sensational! HARRY STYLES And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and ... BIBLE All of them told me they were asked to destroy certain records. And they did. RICHARD REEVES It was like all they could do to restrain him from bounding into the room. It's like he knew we were... ANN MARIE FERRARESE They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that fro... CHRISTINA HENRY
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I... MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?" It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane." MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk abo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w... MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m... MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcas... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams. MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditc... MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them. MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to... MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again." MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing. MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver... MAGGIE STIEFVATER