...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.
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The cat ask...
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"I've had nothing yet," Alic...
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"Oh, you can’t help that," said t...
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Ten...
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Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
Th...
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‘I’m seven and a half...
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The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
LEWIS CARROLL Little Alice fell
d
o
w
n
the hOle,
bumped her head
and br...
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ALAIN SERGILE CUSTOMER: Do you have any of those books where you can change the names of the main character to the...
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"Words." she growled.
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Alice laughed. "It's a tal...
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ALICE WONDERLAND Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
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This sounded p...
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Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously....
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you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
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"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father
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Alice: "Yes..."
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't an...
LEWIS CARROLL Shade caught my hand, slid his fingers through mine. The touch felt like lightning up my arm.
<...
ROSAMUND HODGE ALICE
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a pl...
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ALICE COOPER Whatever you have to say, leave
The roots on, let them
Dangle
And the dirt
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You have a choice
Your heart will know
You gotta look back s...
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As Wrath's voice cut through t...
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won't let go of someone making you
sad is because he w...
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what ...
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“See, hot A...
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Alice could not help her lips cur...
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In one word he told me secret of ...
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GARY F EVANS... Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean imp...
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STACEY SWIGART You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the w...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let me in the wall
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn it down
Let...
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"It can talk," ...
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1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
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Oh boy, did he ramble.
He rambled in a way that was nothing but
a bunch o...
ALYSON NOEL A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke,
Another one bought from the store.
If he lights one, his...
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"That depends a good deal on whe...
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across the Rhine
To take the land of France,
La dame de fer deci...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart ...
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...
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Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay...
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May have been your fatal mistake!
Your smooth complexio...
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SARAH J. MAAS Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like...
JOHN GREEN I have come to your group for somewhere to belong,
I promise I shall adapt before too long, ELISE ICTEN "I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more."
"You mean yo...
But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way-...
LEWIS CARROLL Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby.
"Can it do any tricks yet?"
"I'm sti...
DEREK LANDY There's a big moon shining on the yard, chalking our way onto the lane and along the road. Kinsella ...
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LEWIS CARROLL The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
b...
LUCILLE CLIFTON You let go of my hand
to hold on to my heart
Distance grasps us tight
now that we ar...
MUNIA KHAN love one another, but make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea between the shore...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
KAHLIL GIBRAN His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:...
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REID HOFFMAN Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is s...
REID HOFFMAN The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the...
REID HOFFMAN Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca...
REID HOFFMAN You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
REID HOFFMAN Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
REID HOFFMAN Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
REID HOFFMAN Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really po...
REID HOFFMAN One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Act...
REID HOFFMAN If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumpi...
PAUL HOFFMAN Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in...
PAUL HOFFMAN There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then...
MARY HOFFMAN The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe...
ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year.
ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN