The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.
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Related They called you the Glue" "The Glue?" "Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that... JAMES DASHNER You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fracture... CARRIE JONES She was the glue who held us all together. EDITH JOHNSON It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima... SUZANNE COLLINS El Distrito 12, donde puedes morirte de hambre sin poner en peligro tu seguridad. SUZANNE COLLINS We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded toget... SAM BROWNBACK The world is not made up of black or white, it's a mixture of those colors that gets blurred togethe... RACHELLE MILLS, FIN'S CLAIM I think that 'Star Wars' is the glue that holds us together. MICHAEL WISTOCK We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us light. Likewise... SUZY KASSEM The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down tho... SUZY KASSEM Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho. SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a... SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss. SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme... SUZANNE COLLINS I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out. SUZANNE COLLINS Eu vou ser o Tordo. SUZANNE COLLINS Desearia poder encontrar una forma de...de demostrarle al Capitolio que no les pertenezco, que soy a... SUZANNE COLLINS The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one... RAY BRADBURY I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night ... LAURE EVE The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. PAM BROWN I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and mon... ANDREA CREMER AND DAVID LEVITHAN I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and mon... ANDREA CREMER I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting. BARBARA DE ANGELIS People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. C.J. ROBERTS Its not the bond between two people that is important, what is important is the glue that binds them... SANDEEP GOSWAMY She crept up on me. SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games. SUZANNE COLLINS I believe our car club is a part of Fremont history. We are people who grew up together and have bee... TOM MILLER It is the biggest show in Europe, especially for those of us who have operations in Central and East... JEREMY ROCHE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling. VICTORIA AVEYARD Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they neve... COURTNEY M. PRIVETT Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared SUZANNE COLLINS The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ... BRIAN TRACY The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and t... BRIAN TRACY For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our f... H. L. MENCKEN For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our f... H. L. MENCKEN I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we m... POPE BENEDICT XVI Here's to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx u... SUSAN MCBRIDE In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to
see the difference between things; ... A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, ... LEAH WILSON But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. JEANETTE WINTERSON You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real. SUZANNE COLLINS Tiny, searing stabs. Wherever the droplets of mist touch my skin. "Run!" I scream at the others... SUZANNE COLLINS He's been the glue that kept us together, ... He reminds us that it's not about us, but about Mrs. P... CHARLES ELLIS All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA You can't simulate that; there's no way to prepare for them. The bottom line for us is that there is... ERIC RAMEY For those of us who were here 10 years ago, it's the difference between night and day, SAN ANTONIO For those of us who were here 10 years ago, it's the difference between night and day. JOE KRIER All of us as volunteers, many of us are donors ourselves. We do need to make sure that the money is ... ANDREA DAMITIO Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone... NELSON ALGREN We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough grat... VIRGIL GOODE Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is near... MEISTER ECKHART Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is near... MEISTER ECKHART We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. EARL NIGHTINGALE Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they ha... CUTHBERT SOUP Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. MARK VAN DOREN In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back ... GREG GUTFELD Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has... TONI MORRISON When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... We were the first melting pot city in America. It's striking that those great waves of immigration f... LAWRENCE POWELL Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig... GARY ZUKAV People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so o... STEVEN ERIKSON You've got to go through it to get to the end of it. SUZANNE COLLINS It's so all of these spaces work well together and tell a story together. BARBARA DYE Personality or looks was never important. We all have dark and light side in us, and that's what mak... J C A ROWE Казвам се Катнис Евърдийн. Защо не съм мъртва? Би трябв�... Сюзан Колинс Оказва се, че въпросът, който ме разяжда от толкова вре�... Сюзан Колинс The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to she... IAIN DUNCAN SMITH The light is a friend of the dark, sharing the world together. Light takes over in the day, while th... NIRVIK PARAJULI glue that holds all these things together. MARY FRANCES BERRY A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness ... ANNE LAMOTT Have you found a stairs to the light? The first thing you must do is to inform others so that you ca... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your hear... DAVE GAHAN When I look up at Heaven, I see the souls of those who died Beaming down at me, Wanti... SUZY KASSEM We just kind of all gel together right away. There's just so much talent between those two. It's eas... COLIN SOUTH I think that the hurricane is a wake-up call for all us people to come together. And you know what? ... CURTIS RELIFORD I'm still waiting on the team to show up that can show up for us. We have not put four quarters toge... CARMEN HINES Some souls there are that needs must tasteOf wrong, ere choosing right;We should not call those year... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The partners can integrate that and be the glue to pull all this together for the customer. STEVE SHAW When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light... MARGARET GELLER For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feelin... HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! THABO MBEKI Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! THABO MVUYELWA MBEKI We're very grateful that the Lord has let us have all these years together. IRENE JONES We work with all the libraries of Somerset County, and several of them have dedicated spaces for us. BETH KULLBACK " Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou... ALEXANDER HAMILTON Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous ... ALEXANDER HAMILTON Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and l... GUY FINLEY The validity of Solomon's message has not changed in the three thousand years since he penned it. It... JAMES C. DOBSON You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore . . . but let there be spaces in your... KAHLIL GIBRAN You are saying all those people who show up on Palm Sunday, Easter and Christmas fly away in between... BUCK MALACHI That was a devastating time for all of us to deal with. The crash took away so many in the skating c... DICK BUTTON It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I just think all of us have matured over the years. We're all just getting better. We have a better ... CRYSTAL MURDAUGH
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SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I... SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug. SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza. SUZANNE COLLINS I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki... SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho. SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me. SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving. SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a... SUZANNE COLLINS I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ... SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima... SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss. SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme... SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them. SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole. SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit... SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve. SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it. SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games. SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates. And what... SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade... SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch... SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its... SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real. SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?” “I just want to spend every possible minute o... SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he... SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt... SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise. SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around. SUZANNE COLLINS Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ... SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s... SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share. SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m... SUZANNE COLLINS