It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.
Robert Gottlieb
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it! DEYTH BANGER When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written ... RACHEL VAN DYKEN The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. RENEE AHDIEH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. SWAMI SIVANANDA Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, wh... ANITA SHREVE Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ... MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ... MARIO PUZO When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON What matters is what we do with the life we have. CARRIE RYAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ... C. JOYBELL C. We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and han... SUZANNE COLLINS I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j... STEVEN MOFFAT He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity. AMY HARMON With each word, he broke past every barrier, every wall. And Sharazad's will fought him, screamed a ... RENEE AHDIEH Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done. RENEE AHDIEH You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and yo... RENEE AHDIEH In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go. MARTY RUBIN That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me O... ROBINSON JEFFERS how can the world go on when mine has been destroyed? CHERISE SINCLAIR Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for th... TOM HIDDLESTON The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and te... TEGAN QUIN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength y... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I smiled to myself, thinking of America, measuring her against the other girls. She was pretty, if a... KIERA CASS Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
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[Ger., D... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising health care costs by app... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB One of the most important decisions people can make about their health is the choice of foods they e... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB It expresses our concern that, over time, the labels became cluttered with a lot of information that... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB Sometimes less is more - less information, but highlighting it in a better way, sometimes better con... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until,... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. 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ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some... ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh... ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t... ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o... ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste... ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di... ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p... ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a... ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th... ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental... ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha... ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan... ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ... ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ... ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec... ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi... ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl... ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno... ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive... ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ... ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. ROBERT KENNEDY