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Sometimes people don’t understand
This is a bad story.”
Are you still mad at me?"
I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?”
No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay atte... 
It offends me when you doubt my love.
Roses are red,
Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. 
Don’t try to prove that anybody is foolish because fools don’t like it. Don’t try to prove to ... 
Your children are not your children.
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h... 
Look, this is all very, very weird. Why are you focusing on rumours and urban legends? You haven’t... 
Why did you ask me to live with you? Werewolves hate vampires.”
Words
But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
Why are you leaving me?
1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast... 
There are people.
The Blue Bird
It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn’t touched m... 
He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot."
I love you just the way you are
When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 
I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside ... 
...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the on... 
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not 
You are a slow learner, Winston."
Well, now
Don’t pack out
Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted y... 
I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
America is a dream.
The Type
How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don’t know how to use it?’
O smile, going where? O upturned look:
I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla... 
don’t think that true love means your only love.
It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant 
But ... but what if I hit you?”
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. 
But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little p... 
Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….
Do you think I'm pretty?”
but nothing I ever gave was good for you;
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
eat, baby.
Some like them hot,some like them cold.
I Like For You To Be Still
Her conviction wavered further. “I told you; don’t try to own me.”
I’m mean? That’s the worst you can throw at me?”
We have a long way to go to
No one deserves you like I do.” …
We can’t try to outguess them anymore. Sometimes they do things just to make me do the opposite of... 
You are the Chosen One?”
people diminish me; 
Who are you?
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ... 
Men want a lot of pals—and they don’t want people to get mad at them. 
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continue... 
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. 
If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting... 
I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here. 
When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes... 
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. 
I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, inc... 
I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path f... 
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... 
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,... 
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature ma... 
Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two hal... 
If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor. 
A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w... 
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr... 
Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi... 
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... 
It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim. 
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i... 
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost... 