One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast.
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Related I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره... مليكة مستظرف A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly ... TONY VIGORITO He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too. LEWIS CARROLL By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li... APURVA GAGLANI I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. DEYTH BANGER Be yourself and people will like you. JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself. JEFF KINNEY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication. DEYTH BANGER لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت... مليكة مستظرف How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th... J.K. ROWLING He Is Not Dead I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th... CHAD PELLEY When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. MADELINE MILLER It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou... WALTER MOSLEY He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a singl... HOLLY SCHINDLER Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw... KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible ... M.M. KAYE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi... ADAM SILVERA Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI
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REBECCA RAUSCH Sometimes I played because I wanted to get out of a bad mood, sometimes because I was worried about ... REBECCA LOBO He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the ... REBECCA LOOS Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge... REBECCA MACKINNON It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loa... REBECCA TRAISTER You should find something better to do with your time,” Mandy told him. “I spend my time shootin... REBECCA MCNUTT When we first signed Courtney up for karate, we did it because we thought it was important that she ... REBECCA MCKINNEY The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring free... REBECCA MACKINNON I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used t... REBECCA FERGUSON Newspapers take peoples’ tragedies and force the world to experience all of it. REBECCA MCNUTT 'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermedia... REBECCA MACKINNON I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and R... REBECCA STEAD During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad i... REBECCA TRAISTER There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.... REBECCA MACKINNON I lost my temper," I finish. "I lost my temper. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." "Well, no one mea... REBECCA HARRIS Why did you revive me?” Alecto repeated. “Well… uh, well….” Mandy hesitated, h... REBECCA MCNUTT Like a transformer toy ? a car that changes its shape and turns into a robot ? the protein changes i... REBECCA NELSON Small talk… Bernie resented it more than life itself. 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