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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.


Elizabeth George

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HENRY HARTEVELDT He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”

-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT Even the slightest increases in temperature could have serious implications for Pacific Northwest sn...
CHRIS DALY The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.
CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Na...
KYLE MACLACHLAN The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be he...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND It is not really a well-suited location for a transfer station. The transfer station in Haddam is in...
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OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The trails to the northwest, Lost Cabin and Island Park, break out into the open.
CRAIG COPE Grain cars are already in high demand, and were before the hurricane hit. There is not a lot of extr...
JAMES VALENTINE We're seeing reduced price appreciation in the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska although population gro...
ALEXIS MCGEE Those born under Pacific Northwest skies are like daffodils: they can achieve beauty only after a lo...
LESLYE WALTON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The opening of this new intra-Pacific bank branch is consistent with Hawaii's historic role as a bas...
NICK GRIFFIN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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C. JOYBELL C. I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This boils down to regional homeland security, ... the nearest fighter jets available [to the Pacifi...
MARIA CANTWELL If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and wha...
KURT KUTAY With this technology, we can now begin to gather reliable information on the movements, home range, ...
KEITH AUBRY It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a po...
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GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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JACK KELLEY This winter will be warmer and drier than usual in the southern half of the U.S., wetter and stormie...
JACK KELLEY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER We expect that utilities in the Pacific Northwest will be able to serve all of their firm demands th...
MICHEHL R. GENT People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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BECKY SELENGUT [WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:] The location is extremely convenient to MacDill Air Force Base but yet it's s...
JACK KING Defense won the first game for us. In the second and third games against Grand Island Northwest, we ...
CHRISTY SCOTT Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW What we think it's doing is helping to provide more energy for the storm and shifting it further sou...
GERALD BELL Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The last time this happened in the Pacific Northwest, the geologists tell us, was 1701 so no one in ...
DAVID WU Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ash...
RICHARD PRYOR George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
TOM WAITS Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goa...
JACK REED [They still live in Portland, a Pacific Northwest city 150 miles south of Seattle.] Portland has pre...
COURTNEY TAYLOR When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
RICHIE NORTON A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is...
LEMONY SNICKET A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is...
DANIEL HANDLER We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate,
DAVID GARCIA We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate.
DAVID GARCIA He is ideally suited to make a meaningful contribution to the Committee's consideration of online ac...
CHRISTINE VARNEY The concept of a full-service financial institution was first introduced at the Kennebunk location a...
HEATHER HARRIS Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS We offer a personal concierge, someone who will be there to service you from the time you check in u...
JEFF JOBE Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST During the first quarter, we achieved a number of important milestones including the full operationa...
HAL BROWN Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowst...
BRUCE BABBITT Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
MARILYN MANSON The market in the entire Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but it is extremely strong in China wi...
GREG BUZEK Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
VANILLA ICE Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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ELIZABETH FLOCK People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
ELIZABETH SCOTT The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
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