We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.
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I felt you identifying with it. DYAN CANNON You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ... KAYLA RAE I thought I wanted to be degraded, but I wanted to be degraded with love. You wanted me to talk duri... FIONA HELMSLEY And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. Wh... DAVID LEVITHAN That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 When I walked into your room and sat down beside you on the bed, I felt it. I felt you give... COLLEEN HOOVER I'm thinking about that afternoon you came to the empty restaurant, that day after the Alchemist. Yo... CAROLYN CRANE I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL The first time you kissed me? That moment when your lips touched mine? You stole a piece of my heart... COLLEEN HOOVER I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f... CYNTHIA VOIGT I loved Emma.' The words, so flat and final, explode into the air. 'But she lied to me. I thought pe... J.P. DELANEY When I saw you in the hall with Darian,” he says at last, “I felt more angry than I’ve felt in... JESSICA KHOURY I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and m... LEIGH BARDUGO Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU You were the person that turned things right again. With you, I became courageous and free. It was l... PENELOPE DOUGLAS I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... DAVID BOWIE Fletcher caught me and said something and there was no need for it. Sometimes when you go to that pl... FRANK LAMPARD All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me anot... KYUNG-SOOK SHIN Have you ever met someone and felt… I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having somet... ILONA ANDREWS We are nothing alike, but exactly the same. KAYLA RAE I asked, “When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away fr... DREXEL DEAL I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was... MARK RUFFALO You don't want to wreck somebody to get back at him, ... I just wanted to find him after the race so... JAMIE MCMURRAY I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you rea... MUSIQ SOULCHILD I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. ERIN MORGENSTERN I don't like you. I don't like how your hair smells, and how I can't stop thinking about waking up a... CHELSEA M. CAMERON I think they felt, and I think many blacks would have felt the same way, that you were cheering that... ED GORDON I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everyt... SYLVIA DAY I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with x... DAVID LEVITHAN I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decade... JODI PICOULT That was the strange thing - I didn't hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne... EMMA CLINE I was just waiting for you to want me as much as I wanted you.” His words were quiet but carried o... KIMBERLY DERTING I felt bad because of the kids and his family, but she was rarely there. He was really lonely. I mad... REBECCA LOOS You know why I really hated you? With all that you had you were just so oblivious to it all. You did... J.A. IRONSIDE You knew what I was," he said, taking his hair back from his face, eyes wild with the will to make m... KAREN HEALEY I was thinking around the clouds, and I was hoping you wouldn't bring me down. And I was wandering i... NATE RAMER There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear... PHILIP T. M. With everything going on in my life – going on in my head – I wanted to talk with you. Really ta... JAY ASHER I kind of wanted someone to rearrange the stars so they spelled out his words. I needed them big and... KIERA CASS I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wante... BRENDA LEE I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote thing... CARRIE FISHER I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way... BECCA FITZPATRICK Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the... BILL SHAPIRO Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the lo... ANAïS NIN I will never regret being with you, Syd. Never. And I wish I could go back and relive those h... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn'... NICK HORNBY My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, a... CORNELIA FUNKE I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I wa... DAISY FUENTES What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn&... BETH HENLEY I just thought, 'This is what you do, get ground balls. Here and there, I felt good. I battled, the ... JAKE WESTBROOK I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our l... LAUREN KATE It felt so weird, to be on the other side, where you were the one expected to offer condolences, not... SARAH DESSEN But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we... J.P. DELANEY I'm sorry for loving you, I'm sorry that I cared, I'm sorry for holding onto you but our love was ra... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I fe... GARY CLARK I drove by all the places we used to hang out getting wasted I thought about our last kiss, how... 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER “I would’ve followed you anywhere,” he mumbles, his voice raw with agony. “All I eve... A.G. HOWARD I felt a little disbelief that we were actually done and that this was it. You spend three years wor... MITCH MUSTAIN All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned ever... MARIANA ZAPATA I went right into (the neck wrench) and knew what I wanted to do and felt comfortable with it all th... JACOB HALL I never meant to fall in love with you. But I did. I felt it the first night I made love to you. I t... SAMANTHA YOUNG When I saw it was you, I felt safe. Before I knew it, you charged at me. AMY WRIGHT I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already s... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different t... RADHA MITCHELL Secret Number One: Dump the Fucking Assholes. Dump 'em! There are people in your life who make you f... CLINTON KELLY, I HATE EVERYONE, EXCEPT YOU I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I ... CLIVE BARKER Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is th... AYN RAND I take this as a first step. It's not the way I wanted it to go, but you just got to keep going and ... JOSH BARD But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g... ELIZABETH GILBERT Dear Camryn, I never wanted it to be this way. I wanted to tell you these things myself, ... J.A. REDMERSKI We had this time. We had this little bit of time together for being honest. It felt sharp and finite... SARA ZARR We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant eve... JENNY HAN When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not beca... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I needed him to know how I felt so I just kissed him as long as he would let me. I used to think tal... KATIE KACVINSKY You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you ... EMILY BRONTë I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. Tha... VIRGINIA WADE Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn’t have many ... JENNI SCHAEFER Go away. I'm all right. , LAST WORDS I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt abo... DAVID HERBERT DONALD I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you sa... THOMAS MERTON But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you... ANN BRASHARES I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come ... ABBY WAMBACH He told me that he felt in his heart that I was the one and he wanted to marry me. It just felt righ... JODI DIAS I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did... HEATHER CASEY
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CASSANDRA CLARE And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This o... CASSANDRA CLARE Take off your shirt." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to attack you," she said i... CASSANDRA CLARE Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. CASSANDRA CLARE I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill ... CASSANDRA CLARE aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things... CASSANDRA CLARE Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it? CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin... CASSANDRA CLARE One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. CASSANDRA CLARE He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at th... CASSANDRA CLARE Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. CASSANDRA CLARE Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus o... CASSANDRA CLARE You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoidi... CASSANDRA CLARE I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ... CASSANDRA CLARE What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was ... CASSANDRA CLARE Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited. CASSANDRA CLARE You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Fil... CASSANDRA CLARE And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I cou... CASSANDRA CLARE In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter... CASSANDRA CLARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s... CASSANDRA CLARE Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be. CASSANDRA CLARE Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always Will be. CASSANDRA CLARE You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place ... CASSANDRA CLARE It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me... CASSANDRA CLARE People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l... CASSANDRA CLARE Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. CASSANDRA CLARE You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it. CASSANDRA CLARE One finds nobility in the oddest places. CASSANDRA CLARE Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that... CASSANDRA CLARE If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? CASSANDRA CLARE I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be... CASSANDRA CLARE Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.” “I just wo... CASSANDRA CLARE It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. CASSANDRA CLARE You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better. CASSANDRA CLARE Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immedia... CASSANDRA CLARE I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. CASSANDRA CLARE The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the door... CASSANDRA CLARE And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you shoul... CASSANDRA CLARE So--what's it like, being a vampire?" "Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ... CASSANDRA CLARE Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in res... CASSANDRA CLARE Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back. CASSANDRA CLARE While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and ski... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. CASSANDRA CLARE By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugl... CASSANDRA CLARE It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to... CASSANDRA CLARE Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watch... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something ab... CASSANDRA CLARE Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of cou... CASSANDRA CLARE A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'... CASSANDRA CLARE Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and ... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember,” he said, “when we first met and I told you I was ninety percent sure putting a... CASSANDRA CLARE Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducki... CASSANDRA CLARE [Julian]"Remember, Mark is in charge.” “Does he know that?” said Livvy. Julian sough... CASSANDRA CLARE Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu... CASSANDRA CLARE The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose. CASSANDRA CLARE How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of... CASSANDRA CLARE It wasn’t sexy," he said. “It was a little sexy,” Simon said. He felt much better, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Al... CASSANDRA CLARE The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long. CASSANDRA CLARE No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. CASSANDRA CLARE