I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out." Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.
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ANUSHKA SHARMA Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) What is preaching teaching and speaking the word of God if we dont live and act the word of God TYREL D. LINING do tou think i would speak for you? i dont even know your language JUDD NELSON I say I dont sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I dont sleep with happily married men. BRITT EKLAND I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa... SARA QUIN I dont think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like t... GERARD WAY It's so different and it's hard to readapt. Whole new classes and you dont' know where you're going. JENNY SMITH Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up NADIRA AHMED You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ... MITCH ALBOM no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD When it comes to what you really want in life. Dont take no for an answer. Take no for a question an... BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guy... ICE AGE When everythng is dark around you,dont you ever open the light cause you will get shocked just wait ... OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating?<... LISI HARRISON Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Lik... BRUCE COVILLE I Dont Believe that Anybody Feels the Way I Do about You now. OASIS Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up NADIRA AHMED Don’t do anything stupid." "Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on st... BRANDON SANDERSON When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like... CAROL CHANNING And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do... WILL ROGERS Life gives us lessons to learn and if we dont learn those lessons we will keep going round in circle... GARY F EVANS... 7 keys to getting more things done: 1 start 2 dont make excuses 3 celebrate small s... GERMANY KENT Everybody defines word in different ways,next time i say a word do ask me what it implies and dont j... OLASOT Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission. CORMAC MCCARTHY Its very beautiful over there. I dont know where there is, but I believe its somewhere, and I hope i... THOMAS EDISON GUERRERO BARBOSA Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr... PINK FLOYD Dont shave,I like it..It helps with one of my new fantasies." "Yeah ?"Zack shifted a litt... JENNIFER CRUSIE People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad GEORGE GORDON BYRON Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something. ENID BLYTON You're Nephilim," he said. "The Clave owes us protection in these circumstances." ... "I d... CASSANDRA CLARE Why dont we get drunk and screw? JIMMY BUFFETT We are the future of our past and the past of our future,,,
We dont know what will happen in the fut... LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful… You dont have to be like everybody ... TAYLOR SWIFT Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Ill hug all sorts of people- I dont worry about it looking u... AJ MCLEAN Looks like Yoga is getting a good run in the West. However, I dont think Kara Linga will make it.... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM Dont force noone to see your worth, it doesnt matter how much you love them, love yourself first, ev... JHERRERA Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all. JODI PICOULT The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so. JOSH BILLINGS I dont have a girlfriend, I have a dog. BLINK 182 Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn KATIE BAVISTER Dont wait for anything that will not wait for you. SARVESH when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa... DALLY SALAD was a conditional offer So we dont deal with that. HARRY THOMAS you know people seriously only deciding according to their needs and remember they dont a fuck to yo... FAAMIN You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day. MICHAEL PARENTI Be your own kind dont go around and chase others and do what they do. NADIRA AHMED I did Google him, you know." "Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, do... ALYSON NOEL 'I dont need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it LIL WAYNE Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he... CALVIN COOLIDGE There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English." "The word for what?"... SCOTT WESTERFELD If you dont stand for something you fall for everything. MALCOLM X No", she said, "I know that you don't like me." "You don't know anything. RAINBOW ROWELL Dont wait for anything that will not wait for you. -SARVESH Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you. MICHAEL STRONG I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing. CORMAC MCCARTHY You have more to fear from those who think they know you,Than from those who know they dont. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. What you don’t understand you cannot treasure SUNDAY ADELAJA Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair. Its been hard and bare and rough p... LANGSTON HUGHES We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyon... SHEL SILVERSTEIN
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You just have to look up LAUREN OLIVER That’s when you realize the most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn’t abou... LAUREN OLIVER Someday all the wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty... LAUREN OLIVER I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the stree... LAUREN OLIVER Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenchi... LAUREN OLIVER Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents... LAUREN OLIVER I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to ... LAUREN OLIVER It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could ... LAUREN OLIVER Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. LAUREN OLIVER Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every bre... LAUREN OLIVER That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told h... LAUREN OLIVER This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. LAUREN OLIVER Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long... LAUREN OLIVER I want to apologize to you,” she says calmly. “Oh yeah? For what?” I don’t have time fo... LAUREN OLIVER I'm a nonperson, a shadow, a ghost. Even before the accident I'm not sure that I was a whole ... LAUREN OLIVER No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world... LAUREN OLIVER My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some flop... LAUREN OLIVER i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and... LAUREN OLIVER Who the hell calls at two in the morning?" "Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsa... LAUREN OLIVER Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself. LAUREN OLIVER How did I love her? Let me count the ways. The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s... LAUREN OLIVER Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now... LAUREN OLIVER A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. LAUREN OLIVER Quizá para ti hay un mañana. Quizá para ti hay mil mañanas, o tres mil, o diez mil, tanto t... LAUREN OLIVER That’s when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they’re over they still go... LAUREN OLIVER (I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower ... LAUREN OLIVER I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you. LAUREN OLIVER How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all? LAUREN OLIVER With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious stru... LAUREN OLIVER