Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. But ... The storm broke. Sit down! Shut up! Take the conch! Sod you! Shut up! Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum. Simon went on. We could be sort of. . . . Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. Inspiration came to him. What's the dirtiest thing there is? As an answer Jack dropped into the uncomprehending silence that followed it the one crude expressive syllable. Release was immense. Those littluns who had climbed back on the twister fell off again and did not mind. The hunters were screaming with delight.
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"Sorry abo... CASSANDRA CLARE The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud... MARY OLIVER Saiman reached into the trunk and pulled out a pink tulle tutu. “No.” “Yes.” ILONA ANDREWS After a while Mary said, “Zsadist?” “Yeah?” “What are those markings... J.R. WARD Don't worry I won't embarrass you. I'm just going to check out his friends. Maybe his grades an... KAITLIN SCOTT That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. RICK RIORDAN You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater..and you’ve got some ... RAINBOW ROWELL The Queen‘s smile was wide and terrible. “What if I told you she could be freed by a kiss?” CASSANDRA CLARE Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?"... CASSANDRA CLARE That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I wen... MARY OLIVER What's that you're holding?" he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left hand. CASSANDRA CLARE How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar. "Just about..... ALLY CARTER Have a shower, Si," George urged. "Start the day refreshed. Maybe style your hair a little. It would... CASSANDRA CLARE Do me a favor, Ro,” Day said calmly. “What’s that?” Ronowski peeked around Johnso... A.E. VIA Stop!” she screamed. “Don’t hurt him.” “Back off!” Billy shouted. ... KASI BLAKE Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i... JOHN FOWLES Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, “Whe... ALICE SEBOLD You are real," she said to herself. "Aye." His voice was deep and resonant, a caress in h... J.R. WARD Thank you, Simon, I appreciate that." Luke opened the pizza box and, finding it empty, shut it with ... CASSANDRA CLARE There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love. A fi... COLLEEN HOOVER Simon whispered to me, “But is everything okay?” “No,” Tori said. “I kidnapped her an... KELLEY ARMSTRONG Did you learn the rotation of the border patrols?’ said Laurent. ‘Yes, our scouts fou... C.S. PACAT The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door... CASSANDRA CLARE The Blue Bird from The Last Night of the Earth Poems there’s a bluebird in my hear... CHARLES BUKOWSKI “I think Mr. Thierry wants to speak to Derek alone.” “Why? I was the one trying to st... KELLEY ARMSTRONG What did he do to you?” “This,” I said, holding up my hand. There was a shattering... CHELSEA M. CAMERON He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist. I wiped it off and called... KAMAND KOJOURI Whatever it is," I said, "the point is moot because as long as I'm on these pills, I can't make cont... KELLEY ARMSTRONG He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink. "Yes,... JERRY SPINELLI There is a plain under a dim sky. It is covered with gentle rolling curves that might remind you of ... TERRY PRATCHETT Wait,” he said. “That’s not a word.” I looked down to where, in a moment of despe... RICHELLE MEAD There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say... CHARLES BUKOWSKI You adopted him," I said when Romeo sat on the coffee table in front of me. "You love him," he ... CAMBRIA HEBERT I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "... CASSANDRA CLARE England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain ... ROALD DAHL Start by pulling him out of the fire and hoping that he will forget the smell. He was supp... CAITLYN SIEHL Look. I don’t want to push you into anything, but do you maybe want to —” “Call Magnus? Look... CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said. “It was a little sexy,” Simon said. He felt much better, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting u... VICTOR HUGO Simon: I love you Isabelle Lightwood! I love you and I will not go away until you tell me you love m... CASSANDRA CLARE Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, d... CASSANDRA CLARE There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now. VIKRAM SETH The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make... LEWIS CARROLL He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him... JOSH LANYON According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did... JOHN GREEN Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's asking us our names," Falkor reported. "I'm Atreyu!" Atreyu cried. "I'm F... MICHAEL ENDE Then again, maybe you couldn't have killed me," he said, crawling out of the stairway. He moved very... PATRICIA BRIGGS What's up?" I asked. You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making... RICHELLE MEAD Doran stood on the dais, fists clenched. "All right," he said. "Let's do it, come on. Charge me up."... DEREK LANDY So--what's it like, being a vampire?" "Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ... CASSANDRA CLARE I was thinking we could get a picture of you holding a pitchfork or something. Maybe a big wooden cr... STACIA KANE It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" CASSANDRA CLARE Did you see any rice in there? Maybe we could fill Cinder's head with it." Everyone stare... MARISSA MEYER Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town<... CASSANDRA CLARE Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me. Master!....I will fight for you to the end!.... ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, I... BERTOLT BRECHT Can you sharpen this for me, please?” Logan leaned across the table and took the pencil... ELLA FRANK Careful, Abbey," Caspian warned. "Don't get too close." "He killed her, Caspian! He was ... JESSICA VERDAY 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 multicolored kitten snuggled between her breasts. Lucky cat. "I thought ma... CANDIS TERRY Interesting how fashion is cyclical,” Jaccob said when she came out of the store with two black pl... ERIK SCOTT DE BIE So, what did you think of the Unseelie Court?" A slow, wicked smile spread on his face. "... HOLLY BLACK It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen All dressed in white Going to the churc... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Maybe I could love you someday." If you ever do," he said, "come and let me know. You kn... CASSANDRA CLARE Hunter woke suddenly. A noise. It was a noise unlike anything he’d ever heard before. Close! ... MICHAEL GRANT What's that you're doing, Sassenach?" "Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so fa... DIANA GABALDON Isabelle snorted, "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon." "... CASSANDRA CLARE You," I said, "have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artis... SARAH DESSEN you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Pain lanced through his neck. He gasped and his eyes flew open; Simon was sitting up on him, staring... CASSANDRA CLARE While I slept you stood in the colorful night market with pyramids of bright fruit pi... BRENDA HILLMAN Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.' CASSANDRA CLARE You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It... TRUMAN CAPOTE Training?'Clary echoed."But we trained yesterday." "Some of us have to train everyday,Clary."Ja... CASSANDRA CLARE This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all the run... KRESLEY COLE Jeff: I understand you guys had a good day today? Peanut: Yes we had a great day! Jose: No... JEFF DUNHAM Two of us in this room, Ace, two keycards," he said and my eyes went to him. When they did, he jerke... KRISTEN ASHLEY Portia followed after, a smirk on her face, and Syc hissed as he passed. Donegan waited till th... DEREK LANDY THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich; He gave away his millions to the colleges... FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Turn on the lights, And hide from sight, As we come trick or treating, Throughout th... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Jesus in the Temple of God in Jerusalem Matthew 21 12: AND JESUS WENT INTO THE... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN I love you," he said. She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "... RAINBOW ROWELL It Couldn't Be Done Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle repli... EDGAR A. GUEST With every strike of lightning Comes a memory that lasts Not a word is left unspoken JONAS BROTHERS I drew him in my world; I write him in my lines, I want to be his girl, he was never ... LANG LEAV A whisper of fabric as Derek dressed. Then a hand on my waist, a light touch, tentative. I turned an... KELLEY ARMSTRONG How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind.... JOSS WHEDON I couldn't get through this last book." "He didn't even just skip ahead to read the sex s... KELLEY ARMSTRONG Yes. Kissing. Overrated." "I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out ... TRACY SUMNER But not you, O girl, nor yet his mother, stretched his eyebrows so fierce with expe... RAINER MARIA RILKE
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me. WILLIAM CONGREVE To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ... WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe... WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me... WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus... WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ... WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu... WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t... WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ... WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi... WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH