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Related We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. One kiss does not a relationship make. I'd ki... GAYLE FORMAN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER You asked me about love so I sealed your mouth with a kiss. HENANNIE ZARAGOZA The best part about a first kiss is right before the first kiss. BRETT DAVERN Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES He cupped his hand around her cheek, and she marveled at how perfectly his palm fit her cheek. His f... SUMMER HINES Hope turned sly. “What if the slice of apple pie is served a la mode?” Smiling, Peggy... LYN KEY Kiss her. Slowly, take your time, there’s no place you’d rather be. Kiss her but not like you’... AZRA TABASSUM Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on m... SARAH DESSEN I'll kiss you to sleep,,, I'll kiss you awake.. I'll Kiss up north.. I'll Kiss you down south...Anyt... NERISSA IRVING It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state A tourist in the waking world world, neve... FLORENCE + THE MACHINE I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ki... JEAN-LUC GODARD A kiss…. ….. is just a kiss…. Until it’s all you reminisce. (Then the memory ... RANATA SUZUKI What do you care?" I barked, and his grip tightened enough on my wrists that I knew my bones would s... SARAH J. MAAS Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss. L.M. MONTGOMERY You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess's life, she would reward him with a kiss... AMANDA HOCKING You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares... SARA TEASDALE Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was c... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Kiss me in a way I'll never forget. Kiss me in a way that will stay with me until see you again. BECCA FITZPATRICK Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. SHORT QUOTES Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. JOEY ADAMS Sometimes a kiss was just a kiss. Sometimes a kiss announced changes. That time the kiss ... STEPHANIE WITTER Kiss & tell;If a guy tells you about his past conquests,then he will certainly talk about you to ano... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can'... ALEX KAREV I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN He tasted like chocolate and hazelnut liqueur and she wanted to feast on him for the rest of the nig... ROBIN BIELMAN You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, ... JERRY HALL I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eigh... ED SHEERAN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON Let me kiss you and take your breath away, we'll worry about resuscitating you later. AHMED MOSTAFA I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can&... JEAN-LUC GODARD You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss. DANIEL HEINSIUS Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting... SAUL WILLIAMS I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have gro... W.B. YEATS As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future SOTONYE ANGA I wasn't going to kiss you."' 'You weren't?' I look up look up at him. [...] 'Nope, t... SIMONE ELKELES They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! STEPHANIE PERKINS St. Clair gets a crush on Anna. He's torn between her and Ellie, and he spends so much time running ... STEPHANIE PERKINS When you love someone deeply, Say it with a flower, And seal it with a kiss. ANTHONY T. HINCKS I have missed you so much I could kiss you,” he whispered. September’s face fell. “... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE It is not the gentle kiss of a couple on a first date, nor is it the kiss of a man driven by simple ... SUSAN EE All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord... JINA BACARR I'll have to give Luis a kiss when I see him. STEVEN GERRARD There's nothing to kiss and hug about. CHAD HEDRICK With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end. LUKE TAYLOR To let a fool kiss you is stupid.To let a kiss fool you is worse. UNKNOWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You kiss away her tears. UNKNOWN No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna rea... SIMONE ELKELES A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab... JOHN GREEN When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; then to that twenty, add a hundred more; a thousand to tha... ROBERT HERRICK Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to tha... ROBERT HERRICK And babe, when I kissed you and you kissed me back, not knowing that the fuck you were doin’ but d... MADELINE SHEEHAN Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks... CAROL FRAGALE BRILL There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss i... ANN PATCHETT
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FRANCESCA ANNIS I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my w0rk and it's in the public arena, but that... FRANCESCA ANNIS Everyone's interesting if you stare at them long enough. FRANCESCA ZAPPIA You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor... FRANCESCA ANNIS I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Bur... FRANCESCA ANNIS It seemed to me that so much of America's myth, stories, visions and iconographic images are in many... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO But she is good, ... It was the first time that I saw her and I just tried to do my job. I had to ru... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE I'm looking forward to playing against Francesca, ... We are very good friends, so even if she beats... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE You just fight. In the first set she just had that little bit extra, and it was the same for me in t... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE The humidity is high. You have to change your shirt, you have to drink correct, eat correct, sleep c... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE In the second set I tried to serve better and to do better with my return and make her play what she... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. FRANCESCA ANNIS You don't know it, but I'm a vertical megabrand with cross-media platforms FRANCESCA CASTAGNOLI Something very personal. To prove myself, to keep going and believe in myself. It's not just a troph... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in ... FRANCESCA ANNIS I became part of your fantasy, hoping that one day you would become part of mine! FRANCESCA MULONE People say teenagers think they're immortal, and I agree with that. But I think there's a difference... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far? FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI I was very focused, very motivated and I had good tactics, FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, b... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs a... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA