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Amy Hornyak

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Hodor," said Hodor.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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You mistake patience for forbearance.
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I turned.
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Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
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I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
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Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie...
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I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
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I would no...
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I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
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He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
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Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
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We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince...
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I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
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Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
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Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
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Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
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To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
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Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
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When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
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Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
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Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
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She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
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We are undeterred. We have a tremendous, deep and wide pool of strong, viable minority candidates.
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Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
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How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
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His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
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Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to.
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My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
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If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a...
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We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
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They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...
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Waiting six hours to get one bag of ice and six bottles of water is not a good thing.
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Putting these two together is really a spectacular combination, ... We saw a lot of it on the runway...
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I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
AMY TAN
My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
AMY TAN
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN
No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN
God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS
I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS
I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS
I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS
If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS
But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS
I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS
I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS
We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS
I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...
AMY TAN
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting cl...
AMY HEMPEL
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with...
AMY CHUA
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An...
AMY ADAMS
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT
My dad is dead. And as I type this, by the window, on the rainy day, I am alive, yes. I am living. B...
AMY FUSSELMAN