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Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
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The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
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I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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You do what you love, what you need
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I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
H.P. LOVECRAFT It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR 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 'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H...
VICTOR LAVALLE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and wh...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You have a group of people in there who are possibly responsible for terrorist activities, according...
ANDREW WHITE That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The ...
VICTOR LAVALLE 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 Can’t hear… call back… good luck…”
“Nïx, I know you’re faking the static.” She...
KRESLEY COLE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON It's organized crime. You say [just] a bunch of pimps and prostitutes, but when you string the threa...
CHIP BURRUS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One group expressed a strong interest in getting the ship back on the water for August.
DOUGLAS TOMS Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE 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 There are a whole bunch of things people want to use the 'p-word' for, so we have to be careful.
ALAN BOSS You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.
ROBERT JORDAN 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 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 Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In Walworth County we have a strong tradition of 4-H programs.
CAROLYN BELCZYK Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scra...
JUDITH VIORST He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He ...
PATRICK DOWNES Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself...
URSULA K. LE GUIN These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev...
C. JOYBELL C. 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 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 The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if yo...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nea...
TANER AKçAM When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI A religiously expressed fear of beautiful physical bodies is a perversion that automatically targets...
DAVID L. HATTON We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL [...] orang-orang sering mengklaim lapar akan kebenaran tapi jarang yang menyukai rasanya ketika dis...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 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 I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!
LATOYA ALSTON I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.
ILONA MIALIK Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We've been able to put together a very strong group of educators in this district, and an awful lot ...
BOB DONALDSON Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be...
AMANDA WARD EYRE I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.
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H.P. LOVECRAFT To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchan...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pra...
H.P. LOVECRAFT It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
H.P. LOVECRAFT At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
H.P. LOVECRAFT No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H.P. LOVECRAFT I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. LOVECRAFT They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
H.P. LOVECRAFT He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...
H.P. LOVECRAFT We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
H.P. LOVECRAFT What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
H.P. LOVECRAFT To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H.P. LOVECRAFT After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO

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