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Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.


J.D. Salinger

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I love you," he said.

She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "...
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J.D. SALINGER  I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with whi...
LEO TOLSTOY Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go."
"That's okay,...
RAINBOW ROWELL I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa...
LOUIS SACHAR I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said her daugh...
MARCELLA ANDERSON Do you think you might be able to love me someday?" He asked and heard her laugh softly.

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JASMINE DUBROFF I just don't understand it," said Klaus, which was not something he said very often.
Violet nod...
LEMONY SNICKET Do you know how far the wall is from the mines?”
He gave her blank look. She closed her eyes...
SARAH J. MAAS Why the hell would I bring you?" she exclaimed. All her anger turned at his presumption. It w...
RICHELLE MEAD Inej turned to go. Kaz seized her hand, keeping it on the railing. He didn't look at her. "Stay", he...
LEIGH BARDUGO He then kissed her.

It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked...
EVA IBBOTSON When sad she brings the thunder
And her tears, they bring the rain
When ill she feeds a...
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JANE LEAVY You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.

"Aren't we all?" she ...
SUZANNE PALMIERI So what was that all about?"
"I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango....
CASSANDRA CLARE Celaena threw her weight into the dagger she held aloft, and gained an inch. His arms strained. She ...
SARAH J. MAAS She'll be back," Ranger said. "But not tonight."
[Stephanie] "How'd you get her to leave?"
JANET EVANOVICH She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake...
MARIE RUTKOSKI How did you meet him?" I asked her.
She smiled. "Here, actually. During a dinner rush. He was s...
SARAH DESSEN I’m really not hungry,” she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam bef...
LINDA HOWARD I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flo...
TAMORA PIERCE Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though." She wasn't sure...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
“Make me”, I replied.
ERICH SEGAL Auri hopped down from the chimney and skipped over to where I stood, her hair streaming behind her. ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" DAVE MATTHES What do you want to show me?"

"Nothing, really. I just want to be alone with you for a mi...
RAINBOW ROWELL He said, 'So I started strangling her. To make sure she was dead I stabbed her,
GARY HALL So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into yo...
NEIL GAIMAN He gestured at me. “That’s Belly.”
“Belly?” she repeated.
“Yup. She’s my gir...
JENNY HAN Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"
"I consider...
BRANDON SANDERSON AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
JOHN GREEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me.
"Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie."
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TAMORA PIERCE Ophelia,' said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn't like the way he said that at all. He sou...
KAREN FOXLEE I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back."
...
RAINBOW ROWELL I love you, Jonathan," she whispered.
A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against h...
TAMORA PIERCE Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that ...
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RAINBOW ROWELL You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot...
ERICA BAUERMEISTER Stay,” she panted. Tears leaked from her eyes. “Stay till the end.”
“And after,” he ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Emotion choked her. “Since meeting you you’ve made me feel a lot of things. But not guilt. Not e...
LORI FOSTER Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched h...
PHILIP K. DICK You like? she asked Slade. He gave her a head nod and she vanished behind the curtain.
That's m...
HOLLY HOOD Did the queen offer to let you bring another friend?"
"She did," admitted Lissa. "In particular...
RICHELLE MEAD Sam," she said.
"I'm trying!"
"Sam," she repeated.
"No," he spat, hearing her tone. "...
SARAH J. MAAS Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"
“No.” She held on when he would have pulled aw...
JILL SHALVIS You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't me...
HOLLY BLACK You're a hero,' Mom repeated, squeezing my hand and kissing my forehead. 'You saved six lives in tha...
DAN WELLS You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
NEIL GAIMAN I still feel haunted,' she said. 'I thought it would go away. I thought if I faced it, it would all ...
JAMES S.A. COREY Do you want to marry him?" Peter stopped in front of her, pressing close.
"You know I don't." SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT LOVE IS NOMADIC
AND I'M A GYPSY SOUL
SO LOVE GOES WHEREVER
I GO
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, a...
DEEANNE GIST Do you promise?" He demanded again.
"I can't let you go, Alek." She said softly.
"You...wh...
SCOTT WESTERFELD She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachmen...
RACHEL THOMPSON You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.
She shook her head.<...
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PATRICIA BRIGGS I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...t...
RICHELLE MEAD I know what I want for a souvenir,” he said.
“Yeah?”
He took her wrist and brushed...
MELISSA LANDERS I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing?
"Not really," he sa...
DEREK LANDY Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE Oh aye. He's as dangerous as a sack of blackmark vipers. A right cunt and no mistake.'
The boy ...
JAY KRISTOFF As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK I want you,” she said. “Naked.”

His nostrils flared as if he was soaking in the sc...
NALINI SINGH She had to go," said Rose.
"It was because of her angel," said Indigo.
"And because of Gra...
HILARY MCKAY When we get out of this, let’s go somewhere again. Me and you.”

The tension in her c...
VERONICA ROSSI So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what a...
LAINI TAYLOR I think you’re my hero,' she said. Only half-kidding.
He stared at her, the picture of incred...
THEA HARRISON One thing about her," I said, "that often gets lost in all the scripts is that she can love uncondit...
REBECCA LEE Come she said
Stay she said
Smile she said
Die she said NâZıM HIKMET You can kiss me if you like," she said.

Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fion...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ She murmured, "You're unfinished."
"Aye, precisely."
"I need to go."
When she moved t...
KRESLEY COLE My father wrote beautifully,” Esmé interrupted. “I’m saving a number of his letters for poste...
J.D. SALINGER I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psy...
JAMES DASHNER A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,...
MITCH ALBOM Adam ” Lori called loudly enough for me to hear her but not so loud that her voice would carry up ...
JENNIFER ECHOLS She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid...
LISA KLEYPAS All right, my hope—but I am not saying the rest of it—I have something you need to feel.”
SHERRY THOMAS Hey, Sam,” Drake shouted. “I thought you’d like to know this isn’t my whole army.”
Sa...
MICHAEL GRANT You were dancing with Yuki and I looked at you. And you turned away and held her closer. Why did you...
APRILYNNE PIKE Peter," she began. He looked up at her, and she could see the pain in his eyes. "I love you," she sa...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT Was it ever . . .” She winced, wished she could muffle the need to ask. “Before, with anyone els...
J.D. ROBB Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he...
CAROL LEE Her hands brushed Shane's, and he let go of the cards and took hold.

And then somehow she...
RACHEL CAINE She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is...
MELINA MARCHETTA For Lucie," Peter said quietly, the flame of a gilded saint's candle fluttering in his hand."
"...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT When you've lived as long as I have," he said, eyes heavy-lidded but definitely on her, "you learn t...
NALINI SINGH Like I said, when I get pissed I say a lotta shit I don't mean and what I said about you I didn't me...
KRISTEN ASHLEY I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."...
SARAH DESSEN She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder."
In the silence of the woods,...
TERRY PRATCHETT When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tin...
J.M. BARRIE You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."
Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fi...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so...
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"I beg your pardon?" ...
J.D. SALINGER You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol...
J.D. SALINGER But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they ...
J.D. SALINGER That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak ...
J.D. SALINGER I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the...
J.D. SALINGER Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J.D. SALINGER Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey...
J.D. SALINGER Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know w...
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J.D. SALINGER They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
J.D. SALINGER If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
J.D. SALINGER Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
J.D. SALINGER We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
J.D. SALINGER Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
J.D. SALINGER If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. SALINGER Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
J.D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER