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It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.


Cassandra Clare

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CAM GIGANDET I could feel his whole body trying to claim me, want me, own me in lust, and it made me feel so valu...
FIONA THRUST It made me feel like I was absolutely nothing, and I could do nothing about it, and I couldn't be in...
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NINA JACOBSON I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.
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RAMON PETTUS I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
JANIS IAN Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was wit...
BENNY GREEN Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, an...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
SNOW PATROL I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that ...
ELLIE GOULDING I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul...
DONALD MILLER It made me feel like I was someone important. It was a nice feeling. They came out here to watch me ...
LAURENCE MARONEY I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that mad...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. B...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-withou...
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CURT GOWDY I couldn't cut, I couldn't walk. It was weak and giving out on me, ... To be honest, it was a blessi...
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Friendship...
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DOROTHY HAMILL I don't really feel like he connected with me at all, really. I didn't even know he was president un...
JOE HESS I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basical...
ALLY WALKER When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shi...
MARISA DE LOS SANTOS When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they w...
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STEVE MARABOLI I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me f...
PENELOPE CRUZ Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, da...
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DAN DECARLO The one thing that came back to me was how lucky I was to be standing there on that stage and it's a...
DAN HAMPTON I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made ...
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MINDY KALING You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was told many times not to burn bridges. It made me feel like once I burned a bridge, that was it....
LETICIA RAE People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." MICHAEL CHABON I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my p...
REESE WITHERSPOON I've said this over the last several years: It can happen to anyone. It really can. I'm not immune t...
BRETT FAVRE Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will n...
THOMAS TRAHERNE To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which...
RANBIR KAPOOR You don't want to wreck somebody to get back at him, ... I just wanted to find him after the race so...
JAMIE MCMURRAY I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and t...
ADAM MCKAY 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You The...
KARIN SLAUGHTER But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
DANNY GLOVER I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
NATALIA KILLS Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ...
MARY ROACH I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d...
RORY FREEDMAN That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn...
STEFANOS LIVOS I’m not alone, I think. Carmichael’s height, his black T-shirt, black jeans, and dark hair feel ...
AMANDA MACIEL I'm so glad they came to see me today and came here, because I really needed that support and it rea...
SALLY ALLEYNE I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles i...
NICOLAS CAGE I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY But mostly, I was crying because I was suddenly very aware of the fact that it was me standing up in...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decid...
MARCEL PROUST The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I rem...
HANK AZARIA Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one
of them and I would decl...
HENRY ROLLINS It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never b...
WILL HARONDALE, CLOCKWORK PRINCE It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never b...
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LAUREN DESTEFANO I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direc...
JERROD CARMICHAEL It's important for me to ... understand that I benefit from racial privilege. If I'm not honest with...
ERICA MERCKER The neighborhood children told me that their Polish Catholic priest said that they could no longer p...
LOUISE HALL Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every ...
LISA MISCHELLE WOOD One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke s...
STEPHANIE BEACHAM I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved...
JACKSON PEARCE I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on hol...
CHRISTINE KEELER I pulled on the restraints, frustrated, hurting, and completely devastated. I could feel tears slidi...
ELIZABETH SCHECHTER I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books i...
WALTER DEAN MYERS I was working my way up through management so I could get my own store, ... Then they invited me to ...
COWBOY TROY I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ...
ERYKAH BADU I disagree with Mike on that. I know it was a call that was unpopular with their team, but I feel I ...
LARRY YOUNG I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.
ROXANE GAY I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alo...
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"I'm not going to attack you," she said i...
CASSANDRA CLARE Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
CASSANDRA CLARE I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?"
"You can kill ...
CASSANDRA CLARE aren't you, uh... reproducing?

"sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things...
CASSANDRA CLARE Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin...
CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th...
CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o...
CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi...
CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ...
CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."
She smiled up at him. Fil...
CASSANDRA CLARE 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 In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter...
CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.
CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be.
CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ...
CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l...
CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.
CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places.
CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that...
CASSANDRA CLARE If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be...
CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.”
“I just wo...
CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?"
Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.
CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia...
CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.
CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door...
CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul...
CASSANDRA CLARE So--what's it like, being a vampire?"

"Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"
Simon raised his eyebrow in res...
CASSANDRA CLARE Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.
CASSANDRA CLARE While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.
CASSANDRA CLARE By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl...
CASSANDRA CLARE It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to...
CASSANDRA CLARE Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab...
CASSANDRA CLARE Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
"Of cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'...
CASSANDRA CLARE Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a...
CASSANDRA CLARE Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki...
CASSANDRA CLARE [Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.”
“Does he know that?” said Livvy.
Julian sough...
CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu...
CASSANDRA CLARE The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
CASSANDRA CLARE How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing
at the radiance of...
CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said.
He felt much better, ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al...
CASSANDRA CLARE The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
CASSANDRA CLARE No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.
CASSANDRA CLARE