D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.
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inside and out,
for it is there a part of me dwells,
just as a part... JILL ANZINGER im the one who has to die when its time for me to die. so let me live my life the way i want to LIL WAYNE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I reall... SELENA GóMEZ That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, b... NICHOLAS SPARKS I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa... SARA QUIN That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The... VINCENT VAN GOGH I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth muc... BIBLE Don't you see, Helen? There would be no life for me now without you in it." He covered her hand... MICHELLE ZINK i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do ... ROBIN HOBB If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for te... DIANA GABALDON I was so proud of Rodney Carney today. It would be so easy for Rodney to play for himself right now.... JOHN CALIPARI I know now that it would be better for me to leave and find a team to play for. I can't live without... ADRIAN MUTU Shhh. Just listen. You, of all people. Listen to what Im saying. This...tonight...is the most wonder... JOJO MOYES I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki... DIANA GABALDON You said I could not make it, you tried to stop me, you tried to bring your fears on me. 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WOODIWISS You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity ... BARRY LYGA But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays o... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “... DIANA GABALDON In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and ... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I asked God for a flower he gave me a garden. I asked for a tree he gave me a forest. I asked for a ... OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite ... CASSANDRA CLARE People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply s... HELEN FISHER Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barel... JOHN LENNON If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any ... CHARLES SPURGEON Only if i suffer to win your Heart will i value your love for me, so its good you come down hard on ... STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about... ERYKAH BADU You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ... KAYLA RAE It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make... J. STERLING Live, David," he said softly. "Live your life." "I'm doing that," I grumbled. "No. You are... BRANDON SANDERSON June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, wh... ANAïS NIN If you don’t start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want t... SHAY DAWKINS And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for... DIANA GABALDON Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can't punish me for that. Don't ask me my opinion and then punish me for the answer I give you! ... JACK WHITE Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your h... VERONICA ROTH If you’re scared, tell me. If you need to cry and scream, then do it. And you sure as hell don’t... KATIE MCGARRY Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you ... ARTHUR MILLER You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? May... STEPHEN CHBOSKY He's the boss, but he works for me. IKENNA OJUKWU When I think of you and me and what we shared, I know it would be easy for others to dismiss our tim... 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NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN Grey, just breathe. I love you. Unless you can tell me, without lying, that you dont love me back, ... JASINDA WILDER I know you deserve better than me. You think I don’t know that? But if there was any w... JAMIE MCGUIRE Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna... DIANA GABALDON Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto y... BIBLE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou... CASSANDRA CLARE The others just stopped and stared at him. “Correct me if I be wrong, little man,” Bluebeard sai... JAMES RILEY The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality... GUY FINLEY In fairness to Dmitri Young, if you're going out there and asking him to be Brooks Robinson and you ... 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DIANA GABALDON How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were ... DIANA GABALDON My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ... DIANA GABALDON You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had,... DIANA GABALDON I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn... DIANA GABALDON Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do rem... DIANA GABALDON I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki... DIANA GABALDON To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live. DIANA GABALDON When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no... DIANA GABALDON What . . . fellow?” The wind was cool, but I could see sweat trickling down the back of Jamie’s ... DIANA GABALDON The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane" is one, with a list if two hundred paired figu... DIANA GABALDON For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “... DIANA GABALDON If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ... DIANA GABALDON And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam... DIANA GABALDON One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the wor... DIANA GABALDON Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit c... DIANA GABALDON I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an... DIANA GABALDON (...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h... DIANA GABALDON Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ... DIANA GABALDON My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G... DIANA GABALDON Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment. "Why?" he... DIANA GABALDON Jaime, you must be half-dead" He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha... DIANA GABALDON ...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished ... DIANA GABALDON For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai... DIANA GABALDON Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for... DIANA GABALDON Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t... DIANA GABALDON I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b... DIANA GABALDON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ... DIANA GABALDON I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An... DIANA GABALDON When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word... DIANA GABALDON Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people. DIANA GABALDON I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �... DIANA GABALDON Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow.... DIANA GABALDON I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m... DIANA GABALDON Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed. DIANA GABALDON A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book! DIANA GABALDON Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea... DIANA GABALDON Let me be enough, DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a... DIANA GABALDON Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me.” He was right; nothing did. DIANA GABALDON Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ... DIANA GABALDON Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean." He glanced at the house, then ... DIANA GABALDON That dog is a wolf, is he not?' 'Aye, well, mostly.' A small flash of hazel to... DIANA GABALDON When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ... DIANA GABALDON For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o... DIANA GABALDON A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day. DIANA GABALDON Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what... DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a... DIANA GABALDON I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ... DIANA GABALDON Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere... DIANA GABALDON This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air... DIANA GABALDON You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ... DIANA GABALDON And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which... DIANA GABALDON Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea... DIANA GABALDON Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ... DIANA GABALDON Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ... DIANA ROSS The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. DIANA VREELAND I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. DIANA KRALL Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. DIANA VREELAND I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? PRINCESS DIANA