That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.


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KELLY JONES
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DEYTH BANGER
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ADRIANA LIMA
No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS
Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!
JAMES DASHNER
Now, thats a pie!
JAMES MAY
People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth
LIL TREYCO
People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth
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geluk zit in een klein hoekje, maar hoeveel geluk heb jij om dat kleine hoekje te vinden? Ja dat is ...
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ANUJ SOMANY
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MATT GROENING
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CRAIG DEARING
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RICHELLE MEAD
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CHRIS MACHADO
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JOHN RZEZNIK
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TERRY PRATCHETT
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MAC MILLER
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DEYTH BANGER
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EVA LANG
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STARGAZER
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BETH PAYNE
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CECE JACKSON
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JEROME LAWRENCE
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KOOL MOE DEE
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NILSA FACCHI-BOLLIER
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LISA NEWTON
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DIA REEVES
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ANNE RICE
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OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN
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MELANIE ROJAS
So he has no head'
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'No head at all?'
'Your really...
DEREK LANDY
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO
And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS
I wrote for that back in the mid-1980s. Thats what got me thinking New England should have something...
BURT FEINTUCH
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THE EDGE
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THE EDGE
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THE EDGE
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THE EDGE
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THE EDGE
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THE EDGE
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THE EDGE
Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing...
THE EDGE
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THE EDGE
I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
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Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does bec...
J.A. REDMERSKI
Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be ot...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The fact is that they're playing on the edge. I'm happy that they're playing on the edge, but they h...
JEFF JACKSON
So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we...
LAUREN MYRACLE
Gosh, thats a hard one. I think I would take personal items, clothes and family photos, things that ...
HAROLD BROOKS
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN
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HECTOR GARCIA
[That could be the situation throughout the game, but Razorbacks defensive backs coach Bobby Allen s...
BOBBY ALLEN
We are designed to be tough, thats a success story of all life
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LOUIS C. K.
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT
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SUPERNA BATHEJA
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JASON BERRYMAN
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If your best friends do not read books, they read you.
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LAUREN OLIVER
The devil stole into the Garden of Eden.

He carried with him the disease— amor deliria ...
LAUREN OLIVER
It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn’t touched m...
LAUREN OLIVER
Things weren’t always as good as they are now. In school we learned that in the old days, the dark...
LAUREN OLIVER
For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who yo...
LAUREN OLIVER
That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you wo...
LAUREN OLIVER
She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why ...
LAUREN OLIVER
I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to ...
LAUREN OLIVER
Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents...
LAUREN OLIVER
Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get ...
LAUREN OLIVER
His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
LAUREN OLIVER
We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we wan...
LAUREN OLIVER
Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anythi...
LAUREN OLIVER
His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, mo...
LAUREN OLIVER
I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have."
He cracks a smile then. He nudge...
LAUREN OLIVER
They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, ove...
LAUREN OLIVER
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other....
LAUREN OLIVER
This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second ...
LAUREN OLIVER
I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse l...
LAUREN OLIVER
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't re...
LAUREN OLIVER
I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making m...
LAUREN OLIVER
This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to beco...
LAUREN OLIVER
Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease...
LAUREN OLIVER
How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
LAUREN OLIVER
My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some flop...
LAUREN OLIVER
i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and...
LAUREN OLIVER
I want to help you,' I say to Juliet, though I know that I can't make her understand, not like this....
LAUREN OLIVER
And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand o...
LAUREN OLIVER
Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long...
LAUREN OLIVER
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?'

Kent does a little bow. 'You ...
LAUREN OLIVER
I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely...
LAUREN OLIVER
That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of...
LAUREN OLIVER
I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in t...
LAUREN OLIVER
And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.
LAUREN OLIVER
The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler,...
LAUREN OLIVER
The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I t...
LAUREN OLIVER
No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world...
LAUREN OLIVER
For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back,
easy and smiling aga...
LAUREN OLIVER
The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one seco...
LAUREN OLIVER
What does it feel like to be infected?"
"I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't...
LAUREN OLIVER
I’m used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tu...
LAUREN OLIVER
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
LAUREN OLIVER
I wonder what Lena is doing now. I always wonder what Lena is doing. Rachel, too: both my girls, my ...
LAUREN OLIVER
The dagger pin is all I have left. It is comfort and pain, both, because it reminds me of all I’ve...
LAUREN OLIVER
This is how Tack and Raven work: It’s their private language of push and return, argument and conc...
LAUREN OLIVER
Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like f...
LAUREN OLIVER