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</a> <div class="quoteText"> “And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nicholas Sparks, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_3461> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/3222389">Dear John</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/bestseller">bestseller</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/nicholas-sparks">nicholas-sparks</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/north-carolina">north-carolina</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/53643-and-when-her-lips-met-mine-i-knew-that-i">3919 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" 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Smith; Illustrators, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_8921> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/3311984">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/classic">classic</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/crime">crime</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/detective">detective</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mystery">mystery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/38472-the-world-is-full-of-obvious-things-which-nobody-by">1524 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/5144.James_Joyce"> <img alt="James Joyce" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615569948i/5144._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> James Joyce, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_7588> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/3298883">A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/politics">politics</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/12424-i-will-tell-you-what-i-will-do-and-what">1112 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2980674.Jess_C_Scott"> <img alt="Jess C. 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The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Allyson Braithwaite Condie, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_1542405> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/1534625">First Day</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/allyson-braithwaite-condie">allyson-braithwaite-condie</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/box">box</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/breakup">breakup</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/church">church</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/day">day</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/first">first</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humor">humor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/lockup">lockup</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/memories">memories</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/pain">pain</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion">religion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/romance">romance</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/190660-isn-t-it-funny-how-the-memories-you-cherish-before-a">1005 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/43298.Yevgeny_Zamyatin"> <img alt="Yevgeny Zamyatin" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330778824i/43298._CR0,34,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. 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It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Jess C Scott, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_6600066> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/6793913">EyeLeash: A Blog Novel</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/body">body</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/books">books</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/cool">cool</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/desire">desire</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/emotion">emotion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/friendship">friendship</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/funny">funny</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/girl">girl</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/honesty">honesty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humor">humor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humour">humour</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/imagination">imagination</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/individuality">individuality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/life">life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/music">music</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/passion">passion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reality">reality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/relationships">relationships</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/romance">romance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self">self</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sex">sex</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/technology">technology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth">truth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wisdom">wisdom</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/young">young</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/youth">youth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/287000-v-day-if-you-need-this-one-day-in-a-year-to">666 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2980674.Jess_C_Scott"> <img alt="Jess C. 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How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Don DeLillo, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_408> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2320">The Names</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/ghoul">ghoul</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/liberation">liberation</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/664343-how-i-would-enjoy-being-told-the-novel-is-dead">413 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/746237.Yvonne_Korshak"> <img alt="Yvonne Korshak" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670540014i/746237._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Yvonne Korshak, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_62986809> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/98818806">Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/adventure">adventure</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/athens">athens</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/democracy">democracy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/educational">educational</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/evolution">evolution</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/greece">greece</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love-story">love-story</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11758004-running-out-the-anchor-line-the-pirates-babbled-to-one">354 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2980674.Jess_C_Scott"> <img alt="Jess C. Scott" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1603737393i/2980674._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Jess C Scott, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_8583026> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/13452263">New Order</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/bisexual">bisexual</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/bisexuality">bisexuality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/bisexuals">bisexuals</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/body">body</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/books">books</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/boy">boy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/cool">cool</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/desire">desire</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/emotion">emotion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/erotic">erotic</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/erotica">erotica</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/friendship">friendship</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/funny">funny</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/gay">gay</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/gay-men">gay-men</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/gay-rights">gay-rights</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/glbt">glbt</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/guy">guy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/honesty">honesty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humor">humor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humour">humour</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/imagination">imagination</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/individuality">individuality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/life">life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/music">music</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/passion">passion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reality">reality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/relationships">relationships</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/romance">romance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self">self</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sex">sex</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sexuality">sexuality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/society">society</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/society-s-increasing-stupidity">society-s-increasing-stupidity</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/technology">technology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth">truth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wisdom">wisdom</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/young">young</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/youth">youth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/287004-i-suppose-it-s-not-a-social-norm-and-not-a">346 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/746237.Yvonne_Korshak"> <img alt="Yvonne Korshak" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670540014i/746237._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Yvonne Korshak, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_62986809> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/98818806">Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/adventure">adventure</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/athens">athens</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/democracy">democracy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/educational">educational</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/evolution">evolution</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/greece">greece</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11758021-aspasia-had-herself-fallen-into-very-good-fortune-so-good">339 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/137902.Richelle_Mead"> <img alt="Richelle Mead" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1270374609i/137902._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?"<br />"Yes."<br />"Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something you'd do."<br />I resisted the urge to smack him. "Because I'm not insane! But I'm going to go get them before they do something even stupider.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Richelle Mead, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_2282133> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/6651004">Frostbite</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/frostbite">frostbite</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mead">mead</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/richelle">richelle</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/vampires">vampires</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/177846-so-mason-eddie-and-mia-went-to-spokane-to-hunt-strigoi">325 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/1704404.Mark_Glamack"> <img alt="Mark Glamack" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1427142820i/1704404._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Mark Glamack </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/book">book</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/books">books</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/family">family</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/friends">friends</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/parents">parents</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/people">people</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/politics">politics</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reading">reading</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/teenagers">teenagers</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/teens">teens</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/85189-if-you-surround-yourself-with-the-good-and-righteous-they">320 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2980674.Jess_C_Scott"> <img alt="Jess C. 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to be filled.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Jodi Picoult, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_14864> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/3375925">Plain Truth</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/amish">amish</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/empty">empty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/filled">filled</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/jodi-picoult">jodi-picoult</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mystery">mystery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/okay">okay</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/plain-truth">plain-truth</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/say">say</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/speak">speak</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/tell">tell</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/truth">truth</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" 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</div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/336326-and-all-i-could-think-was-that-i-would-like">141 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/2345.Nicholas_Sparks"> <img alt="Nicholas Sparks" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1709219853i/2345._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Nicholas Sparks </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/bestseller">bestseller</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/nicholas-sparks">nicholas-sparks</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/north-carolina">north-carolina</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/221728-for-a-moment-i-wondered-how-different-my-life-would">114 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/23041.John_Wooden"> <img alt="John Wooden" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1270917507i/23041._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Be quick, but don't hurry.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> John Wooden </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/75934-be-quick-but-don-t-hurry">103 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/6343.Milan_Kundera"> <img alt="Milan Kundera" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1729099820i/6343._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Milan Kundera, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_26115> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/3428728">The Book of Laughter and Forgetting</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/don-quixote">don-quixote</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mystery">mystery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/tolerance">tolerance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/wisdom">wisdom</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/53829-when-don-quixote-went-out-into-the-world-that-world">99 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/5347052.Priya_Ardis"> <img 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href="/quotes/tag/women-s-fiction">women-s-fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ya">ya</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ya-fantasy">ya-fantasy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ya-paranormal">ya-paranormal</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ya-romance">ya-romance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/young-adult">young-adult</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/542408-vane-s-lips-tightened-to-suppress-a-smile-why-so-hostile">85 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/5347052.Priya_Ardis"> <img alt="Priya Ardis" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322096493i/5347052._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”<br />Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Priya Ardis, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_13496831> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/19040563">My Merlin Awakening</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/action">action</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/adventure">adventure</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/arthurian">arthurian</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/arthurian-collection">arthurian-collection</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/camelot">camelot</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/coming-of-age">coming-of-age</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fairy-tales">fairy-tales</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fantasy">fantasy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/greek-mythology">greek-mythology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/history">history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/magic">magic</a>, <a 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Kramer" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508222619i/15015247.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Michael G. Kramer, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_162017068> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/173535519">Isabella Warrior Queen</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/british-history">british-history</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/edward-ii">edward-ii</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/enlightening">enlightening</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/exploration">exploration</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction-writing">fiction-writing</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/invasion">invasion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/powerful">powerful</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/queen-isabella">queen-isabella</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11758039-when-speaking-to-her-husband-isabella-replied-mon-tresdoutz-coer">72 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/17259321.J_J_Sorel"> <img alt="J.J. Sorel" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1630963821i/17259321._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “This must be awful for you. You get a job, and then next thing you know you’re dealing with a car chase, a bitchy manager, the SEC, and a boss dying to visit a secluded island with his admin assistant.” A slow grin grew on his face. <br />Mm… when can we go?” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> J.J. Sorel, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_56825276> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/88841294">A Taste of Peace</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/ceo">ceo</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/drama">drama</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/10684150-this-must-be-awful-for-you-you-get-a-job">68 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/3090184._"> <img alt="ميلان كونديرا" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1318047050i/3090184._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “الموسيقى بالنسبة لفرانز هي الفن الأكثر قرباً من الجمال الديونيسي الذي يقدّس النشوة. يمكن لرواية أو للوحة أن تدوّخنا ولكن بصعوبة. أما مع السمفونية التاسعة لبيتهوڤن، أو مع السوناتة المؤلفة من آلتيْ بيانو وآلات النقر لبارتوك، أو مع أغنية للبيتلز، فإن النشوة تعترينا. من جهة أخرى فإن فرانز لا يفرّق بين الموسيقى العظيمة والموسيقى الخفيفة. فهذا التفريق يبدو له خبيثاً وبالياً، فهو يحب موسيقى الروك وموزار على حد سواء.<br />الموسيقى بالنسبة له محرّرة: إذ تحرره من الوحدة والانعزال ومن غبار المكتبات. وتفتح في داخل جسده أبواباً لتخرج النفس وتتآخى مع الآخرين. كما أنه يحب الرقص إلى جانب ذلك ويشعر بالأسى لأن سابينا لا تشاركه هذا الولع.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> ميلان كونديرا, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_9717> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/4489585">The Unbearable Lightness of Being</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/book">book</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/friedrich-nietzche">friedrich-nietzche</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/friedrich-nietzsche">friedrich-nietzsche</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/milan-kundera">milan-kundera</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/neitzsche">neitzsche</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/novel">novel</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/philosophy">philosophy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/philosophy-of-life">philosophy-of-life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/political">political</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/psychological">psychological</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/psychology">psychology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion">religion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion-and-philoshophy">religion-and-philoshophy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sex">sex</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sociology">sociology</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9">اجتماع</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%B3">جنس</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D8%AD%D8%A8">حب</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85-%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B3">علم-نفس</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A9">فلسفة</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A9">فلسفة-حياة</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%86-%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%AE%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%87">كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7">ميلان-كونديرا</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%87">نيتشه</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/1020242">61 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="action"> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails "> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/744640.Behcet_Kaya"> <img alt="Behcet Kaya" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1729301228i/744640._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Before I could answer, there was a soft knock on the door. I turned to see an auburn-haired, green-eyed, freckle-faced young woman walk in. Her hair was a mass of soft curls and she wore no makeup. My first impression was to describe her as a plain-Jane. On closer inspection, hers was a strong and unique face. She dressed in slacks, silk blouse, and no visible jewelry. All of which, to me, indicated serene confidence. Her green eyes were piercing with almost a wild look to them. 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