It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died.
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MARKUS ZUSAK You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a... MARKUS ZUSAK With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the fee... DIANA GABALDON While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA Life has a way of changing the path you are on when you least expect it. DEBORAH BLAKE To try to make somebody love you is as hard as to try to walk on snow leaving no footprints. VIKRANT PARSAI If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ... 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MLADEN ĐORđEVIć I realized all those times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abs... SARAH DESSEN if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need ... EUGENIA PRICE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world,... JODI PICOULT With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As wit... JEAN BAUDRILLARD See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ... JODI PICOULT Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf... ALICE SEBOLD People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you c... ROBERT ASHLEY You are Eadlyn Schreave. You are the next person in line to run this country, and you will be the KIERA CASS You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO You have to train them, you have to train yourself, you have to train together. Sometimes I relate i... AMARA PACKWOOD You have to train them, you have to train yourself, you have to train together. Sometimes I relate i... AMARA PACKWOOD I changed my putter, went rummaging around in the garage and pulled the old one out as I felt a chan... MARK ROE I changed my putter, went rummaging around in the garage and pulled the old one out as I felt a chan... MARK ROE Yes you have returned And things are as they were But this you cannot hide, A part of... JOYCE RACHELLE To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... I watch the trees all dressed up in the Spring, While posing as they stand in line, Pla... CHARMAINE J FORDE And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house. GINA GREENLEE As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not... SAM BENNETT Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work. MARKUS ZUSAK If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it SOTONYE ANGA Conversation between Jem and Ethan on Sean: '"... Has it never occurred to you that maybe your ... J.A. BELFIELD Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an old... JEANIENE FROST I felt a knot in it. I felt like I was either getting ready to pull it or pulled it a little. If I h... DAVID WESLEY If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI It seemed like someone was coming in and swimming when they weren't there. They would see wet footpr... TONY REVELY Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how... DEYTH BANGER With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything. It was as if I was on top of the worl... RANATA SUZUKI The Saddest Thing There was someone I knew, a long time ago. I was so in love with him I couldn... LANG LEAV [Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all... RICK RIORDAN It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a... TOM BARRETT The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it ... ERIC BRISTOW Magnus had learned to be careful about giving his memories with his heart. When people died, it felt... CASSANDRA CLARE You were a town with one pay phone and someone else was using it. You were an ATM temporarily u... KIM ADDONIZIO It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - ... JIM BAKKER Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to i... RAY BRADBURY Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort and warmth as I slip into you. No, that i... KAMAND KOJOURI Since the number has been stated as not out of line it sounds like someone is trying to play this do... JASON CALACANIS Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar... VERA NAZARIAN In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone;... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro... AL-HASAN AL-BASRI A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Just as the act of love should never be rushed – except between floors in an elevator, or with a s... CHLOE THURLOW Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them."<... LISA KLEYPAS What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON As we developed that reputation, the volume has increased, ... Being a new facility and having high ... ROBERT KLEIN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON How many times did she have to say goodbye? MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t... MARKUS ZUSAK
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Besides Greg Fienni, I never re... MARKUS ZUSAK And why?’ He pauses. ‘I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy lik... MARKUS ZUSAK She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head ... MARKUS ZUSAK I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish. MARKUS ZUSAK The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds... MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye? MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t... MARKUS ZUSAK Here is a small fact: You are going to die" "does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I... MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT *** ABOUT RUDY STEINER He didn't deserve to die the way he did. MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT *** ***ABOUT RUDY STEINER*** He didn't deserve to die the way he ... 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