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I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.


Suzanne Young

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sometimes . . . the only real thing is now.
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DAMIEN HIRST The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
LARRY POONS His angry expression softens, and then he shoves my shoulder playfully.
"Hey!" I push him back...
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KELLY CLARKSON True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The only real valuable thing is intuition. -Albert Einstein.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.
TOMMY LEE JONES Right now the only thing that will beat us is ourselves.
JASON ALLEN i love a good nap , sometimes it's the only thing that get me up in the morning
JASON ALEXANDER I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
CANDACE PARKER Sometimes the only thing between success and defeat is a paycheck.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS The crazy thing is we've got so many young guys. A lot of these young guys, I think they're kind of ...
TODD ABERNETHY I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.
ANDREW RANNELLS The only thing that's different is that now I'm the short guy,
JUSTIN YOUNG I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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HUGH LAURIE It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
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CRAIG BRUCE The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
DAVID LEE ROTH The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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BARRY GIBB The only thing, I mean the only thing we can control is how we act, react and interact with people. ...
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SUZANNE COLLINS One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.

Always.
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I'm j...
SUZANNE COLLINS No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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P...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
SUZANNE COLLINS Is that why you hate me?" I ask.
"Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.
SUZANNE COLLINS I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No,...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
SUZANNE COLLINS In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom o...
SUZANNE COLLINS You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with...
SUZANNE COLLINS To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that ga...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You wi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.
SUZANNE COLLINS The question is, what are you going to do?"
It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
SUZANNE COLLINS As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have ...
SUZANNE COLLINS In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his i...
SUZANNE COLLINS What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How ...
SUZANNE COLLINS We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia...
SUZANNE COLLINS