They forgot everything the minute they were together again.


Emily Brontë

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The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER
They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star...
DEYTH BANGER
I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t...
DEYTH BANGER
If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
MATT HAIG
When they didn't drink, their lives together were better. When they drank it would ruin everything.
ADALBERTO OLIVEIRA
So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divi...
LOUIS MACNEICE
Emily looked into his eyes. They were blank, unreadable. That was the worst kind of person, the scar...
LISA UNGER
Turns out they were so excited the instrument worked that they forgot to let me know.
MARK BAUTZ
The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER
And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER
They were silent within a minute or two.
RUSTY GREGORY
Both were cremated so fast. To this day, it really bothers me. One minute they were there; the next ...
PATRICIA CORNWELL
They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, ...
C. JOYBELL C.
years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
They played together. They really fit together well, and they disguised the coverage schemes well, a...
BILLY DAVIS
It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about h...
JENNIFER BROWN
They were bound, they were together, there were no kidnappers in the area.
RICK LYNCH
But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN
The deadline is set and they think I am their pet.
SANTOSH KALWAR
After they scored, we still were pretty even in play. In the second half they scored again with 15 m...
LUKE RUMOHR
They were a good couple. They were together 36 years.
LAURIE BOURQUE
Together, they were greater than either them could possibly be apart. Together, she prayed, they wer...
KAREN ESSEX
But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than ei...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
We're purple. I wouldn't label this team, because they do it all - they play with finesse, they defe...
GARRETT SMITH
At one point we were playing together as a team. The next minute we were falling apart.
CURTIS DENNIS
We were surprised by how well prepared the filers were in general, ... They had done their homework....
CHARLES MILLER
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities a...
FRANK MOORE COLBY
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities a...
GROVER CLEVELAND
They played well again together. I think all the doubles teams are starting to mesh well together an...
DAVE LIPE
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
MADELEINE M. KUNIN
What’s there to tell? The people over there embrace for a minute, and then they go inside the hous...
RAYMOND CARVER
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a...
TIM O'BRIEN
We knew that they had been waiting 10 months. They came out and played hard and they were prepared. ...
GREGG KOHLHEPP
The time has certainly passed for someone saying they forgot or were sick, ... Everybody should file...
RAY BUCKLEY
We were old salts together again.
ROBERT ANDERSON
Two hearts can never conjoined to make one but,two souls if they were ment were alredy together at o...
HAYLEE D'ANN RICE
This will be the third year that Carney and Smith have been playing together. They played a little a...
MARC TALBOT
They just kept the pedal to the metal. They were sure of everything they were doing and kept doing e...
JARRAD PAGE
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
RALPH BAKSHI
They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER
Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans.
DEYTH BANGER
Obviously, when the old Soviet Union broke down, I think it took some years until they feel they are...
TEEMU SELANNE
Jayme and Clyde were put together at the last minute and did a great job today.
JACK HUGHES
Not true, ... They were best friends. They were together all the time, all four of them. John and Pa...
CYNTHIA LENNON
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every ...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things w...
BUDDY GUY
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were s...
YAIR LAPID
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that: People were taught that they were created by...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE
They were consistent on everything.
CARRIE ROTONDARO
She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, tha...
SARAH WATERS
Look at the points. They were even. We passed the ball together. We played together.
ERIC FERGUSON
They weren't just pals working together; they were actually family down there.
ANNA MCCLOY
Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they...
HARRY BRIDGES
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile a...
MARKUS ZUSAK
When it got radio play, they didn't want a six-minute cut, they wanted a three-minute cut, so they c...
WILLIAM SHATNER
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think th...
ANDY WARHOL
With those two schools working together in conjunction with the police department, they were able to...
BECKY MCILRAITH
We were absolutely thrilled. We had no idea they were doing this until they put together this plan.
BETTY HUGHES
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
JESS C. SCOTT
-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
We're hungry to play them again. We have a feeling they were excited when the seeding came out and t...
JOSH MANNING
We were lining up wrong on offense ... and lining up wrong on defense, and that hurt us a couple of ...
LANCE MARTIN
Together they’d run away. Together they could find a place to call home. Together they’d finally...
HELLA GRICHI
They jumped into summer and fall. They did everything together. It's not like they hadn't before, bu...
GALVIN MORRIS
(He) just walked in, hugged the cheetah, was great friends with him. They were buddy-buddy in a minu...
CARROLL BALLARD
They were popular before, and they'll be popular again.
JOE HEDRICK
They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on...
LEIGH BARDUGO
The minute they become a partner in the Palestinian government, reality will become a lot more compl...
AVI DICHTER
Everything they were throwing up was falling.
JAY YOUNGBLOOD
They were always together. They were like the old-fashioned family. We used to call Ronnie Mr. Mom. ...
GEORGE MERO
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN
Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'
MICHELLE PHAN
All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING
...Yeah a lot of you have to do... I have gave you one up to three films and books... in other day o...
DEYTH BANGER
They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will...
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Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER
When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor...
DEYTH BANGER
The only walls and barriers that were present were the ones that they both climbed together.
LANCE TRUMBULL
Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the...
SHAY MITCHELL
The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome ...
MATT ANDERSON
I saw some (sun-tan) lotion and everything. They were throwing everything.
LEONARD LITTLE
They begin to fire together. The more they fire together, the more they wire together.
ALFRED MOLINA
They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.
DICK BUTTON
They had authentic country roots. But I think they believe they were put on this earth to be togethe...
REESE WITHERSPOON
My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Emily and Sarah were very outstanding. Elena also did quite well.
ROY COATES
They understood who they were individually and they understood who they were as a couple. They were ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM
I think people started getting scared and falling under the pressure, and we just weren't working to...
DANA MITCHELL
So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together...
BIBLE
For some of these guys, it's their fourth year of playing together. Some have been playing together ...
HUGO LUNA
It's nice that Emily and I work together well. We have that inside, outside kind of stuff. We help e...
KATIE DOSS
My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died sta...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
They were coming in droves. It was everything from NBA people, to everything.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
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I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existe...
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He comes with western winds, with evening's
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With that clear dusk of heave...
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How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
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What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
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The old church tower and garden wall
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Riches I hold in light esteem,
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly throu...
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You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt f...
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse th...
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The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorn...
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
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I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!
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I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei...
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If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
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She dried her tears, and they did smile
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Nor did disce...
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It's wrong to anticipate evil.
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To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
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I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!...
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It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
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I love my murderer--but yours? How can I?
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Are you possessed with a devil,' he pursued, savagely, 'to talk in that manner to me when you are dy...
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Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more yo...
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
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But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
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I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
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I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
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It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it ...
ANNE BRONTë
I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...
ANNE BRONTë
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take...
ANNE BRONTë
Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Evening Solace

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in othe...
ANNE BRONTë
So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...
ANNE BRONTë
Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...
ANNE BRONTë
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o...
ANNE BRONTë
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charm...
ANNE BRONTë
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë