I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seem...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never t...
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GASTON LEROUX

He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, “I see you. I see every part of y...
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LAUREN MORRILL Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but i...
ED GOLOD It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, b...
CONNOR FRANTA You think I wanted to fall for you? I stayed away from you! I gave him the chance to be with you! Bu...
COLLEEN HOUCK You are all making it very hard to go back. My husband is homesick. He wants to go home, and I want ...
CATHEY LEWIS If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you ...
MITCH ALBOM But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away,...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer...
SUZY KASSEM He is homesick and wants to stay away. I am disappointed, but the South West is not for everyone.
ALEX INGLETHORPE We are playing good basketball right now. It's hard to not be part of it. I felt like I was playing ...
LAMAR HURD 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 One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be
loved by me. You cannot avoid it...
ELIZABETH GASKELL 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 Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
DON DELILLO I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as the...
HENRY KISSINGER It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. ...
GARY HUME All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. ...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviou...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to ...
ANN BRASHARES Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY take it all the way down, but halfway through [Mientkiewicz] said he wanted to finish it off himself...
DAVID WRIGHT Your guidance surrounds you all day long, every day, all the time, never leaving you, not even for o...
CATHERINE CARRIGAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darling ...
NIALL HORAN Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had...
MEISTER ECKHART It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the ot...
BRITNEY SPEARS Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go ...
AALIYAH A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people we...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport...
ALLEN R. HUNT I lived for you. And I lived for Will, and then I lived for Tessa - and for myself, because I wanted...
CASSANDRA CLARE Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there...
CHARO Now we get into the part of the track I call the rhythm section turns 4, 5 and 6. Hard, hard braking...
LEIGHTON REESE Only two years dead, and it was getting harder for me to feel…anything. I was starting to slip int...
RACHEL VINCENT Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and...
MITCH ALBOM This is where I am. I am not leaving now. I know it might be hard for guys to focus. But that's not ...
ANNIE HOUGHTON She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end."
"Everything ends."<...
TOREY L. HAYDEN I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you.
KRISTIN CASHORE Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to i...
PAULINE RéAGE When I look back on this I'll always be hurt. Not because of you but because I'm afraid. You think y...
A BROKEN HEARTED GIRL just sitting here thinking about life; it really is too short to waste it on nonsense and things tha...
EVAN STARK I just felt that like an actor it's really hard to get a really good role. I mean a part like this, ...
ZACH BRAFF Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not g...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE I’ve never been so clear about anything in my life. I turned around, made my way to that room you ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Let go of the past, even if it offers you Heaven; embrace the future, even if it offers you Hell.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring...
ALEXA VON TOBEL Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass,...
BIBLE If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you ca...
MITCH ALBOM You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All...
GASTON LEROUX I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our...
ANN BRASHARES I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revol...
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was leaving...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT As part of this, you will be able to go into the public part and get up-to-that date information. If...
JAY BRADSHAW I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better f...
NINA LACOUR I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight ...
DREW BARRYMORE People say to me, 'Are you still excited when you go on tour?' Should I be excited about lea...
NEIL PEART i can go on all day pretending to be happy an fooling the world and leave you wondiring when im gone...
AMBER FAITH HUN I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it...
JESUS CHRIST Everything you could ever wish for is just in reach. Work hard and never be afraid to ask for someth...
TERRY LANDER I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I...
RUMI I have fallen in love with you Sasha Ava Stryker. I am afraid it is eternal and binding. I wanted to...
FARRAH NASEEM I die hard but am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem...
LENNY BRUCE The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem...
LENNY BRUCE He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I want...
SIMONE ELKELES Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. E...
M. J. ROSE It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on wri...
KATE BERNHEIMER When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm...
PARK BO-GUM We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never...
C. JOYBELL C. One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same ey...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly b...
MATT SMITH I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You&...
GEOFF JOHNS Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good e...
CANDACE CAMERON BURE Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good e...
CANDACE CAMERON If death snatches me away from you, remember i will wait for you in heaven baby...
OLASOT if something is hard to achieve, then work as twice as hard as it, then you will be successful twice...
ANON QUOTER Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it th...
DANIEL HANDLER All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...
ANNE RICE I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of t...
SARAH J. MAAS The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I w...
PATTI STANGER Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
ELIZABETH BERG I've been dying for this day to come, but now that is has past and I've said what I wanted to I will...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a ri...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can over...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delig...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go d...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten afte...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT …the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, "It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Presently, out from the wrappings came a teapot, which caused her to clasp her hands with delight, f...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shap...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I could have been a great many things.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT There are certain pigments that contain glass mentioned in the 1534 inventory, but by no means all, ...
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

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