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have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fu... ANNE FORTIER 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 Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
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school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had im... CHARLES DICKENS It is possible that for a Jew nothing more was required than the assurance that his sins were 'remit... ANDERSON SCOTT They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were ... MARGARET ROME 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 Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. The ... J.K. ROWLING She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Everyone, later, would find it unbelievable that anyone involved in the ranch would stay in that sit... EMMA CLINE I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased... ANNIE DILLARD And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte... J.K. ROWLING Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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