When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.


J.M. Barrie

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Like Dinah says, “We can only play the cards we’ve been dealt. It doesn’t do any good to wish ...
J.M. SULLIVAN
No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, s...
J.M. COETZEE
We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we ope...
J.M. HARRISON
The Heart of what you are is not your body or your thoughts but pure Consciousness itself.
J.M. HARRISON
You have enemies the moment you have success. Our job is finding a way to do business with them. Eve...
J.M. LAWLER
I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was...
J.M. RICHARDS
It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of ...
J.M. RICHARDS
I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Bra...
J.M. RICHARDS
Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’r...
J.M. RICHARDS
When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bra...
J.M. RICHARDS
I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is ...
J.M. RICHARDS
I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
J.M. RICHARDS
I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
J.M. RICHARDS
You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that,...
J.M. RICHARDS
As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, stro...
J.M. RICHARDS
Being in love with your best friend is problematic.
J.M. RICHARDS
You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how st...
J.M. DARHOWER
Um, you don’t have to join me, but if you’re looking for a table, there are a couple good seats ...
J.M. RICHARDS
Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
J.M. MCDERMOTT
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J.M. SYNGE
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J.M. SYNGE
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
J.M. COETZEE
I am not the we of anyone
J.M. COETZEE
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE
The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE
Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS
Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN
With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to...
J.M. COETZEE
Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS
I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS
It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS
Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is...
J.M. COETZEE
Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE
she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER
You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER
The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets.
J.M. COETZEE
I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...
J.M. COETZEE
Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD
From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
J.M. COETZEE
When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER
He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER
He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER
I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS
The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS
I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a ...
J.M. STEWART
The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...
J.M. COETZEE
Adam delayed only a second longer before traversing into the uncertain future, crossing the hidden d...
J.M. NORTHUP
He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo...
J.M. COETZEE
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo...
J.M. COETZEE
I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE
Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.”
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J.M. DARHOWER
Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö...
J.M. COETZEE
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
JAMES BARRIE