"Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion."
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"I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means."
"She seemed to be a nice person, too, instead of a homicidal bitch like his former wife. Otherwise, the world should fear. When Mencheres fell for a woman, he fell hard. If Kira asked for her own continent as a birthday present, Mencheres would probably have one conquered for her before she blew out her candles."
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"Grave Dancing for Dummies {Couplet} They danced at my grave when I was buried at sea;with my haters drowned, I'm now totally free."
"As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education."
"A sofa on an elevator would be like a slow roller coaster where you get to work on your small talk skills. Oh yes, I am an adrenaline junky."
"Somalia Haiku For a Somalian, heaven's drawing water from a well in an earthen pot."
"Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy."
"I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them."
"Perform the act of writing as often as possible."
"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"You smell good,"he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. "Really?""Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon."
"Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!"[...]"I get that you're angry—,"said Patch."I am ripped apart!"I shouted."
"When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes."
"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."
"Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?"
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