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“After your jump, the net appears. - Vincent Lauria”
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“I still make coffee for two. - Zak Nelson”
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“Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. - Margaret Hellerstein”
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“Internal age doesn't match external age. - Carol Smith”
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“Followed white rabbit. Became black sheep. - Gabrille Maconi”
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“Love drama, just not my own. - Sam Zalutsky”
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“Never lived up to my potential. - Leslie Sterling”
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“I imagined more than office jobs. - Gretchen Vitamvas”
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“I live the perfect imperfect life. -Paul Lore”
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“I'm the fine print; read closely. -Kristina Grish”
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“Memory was my drug of choice. -Pea Hicks”
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“Taking a lifetime to grow up.”
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“Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. -Margaret Hellerstein”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

“Her blue eyes
capture the distance.
-Sonya Cheuse”
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“Revenge is living well, without you. -Joyce Carol Oates”
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“Well, I thought it was funny. -Stephen Colbert”
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[B]eauty is any quality by which an object or a form pleases a beholder. Primarily and originally the object does not please the beholder because it is beautiful, but rather he calls it beautiful because it pleases him. Any object that satisfies desire will seem beautiful: food is beautiful - Thai's is not beautiful - to a starving man.”
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“I know what my job is, and I'm damned good at it."

When he snorted she came back down two steps. She came down slowly, her movements deliberate, because her own temper was much too close to the boil. "Good enough to have figured out why you've hated the sight of me since I first walked in that door. Since you understood Roarke had feelings for me. Part A was easy -- a first-year rookie could have snagged onto it. I'm a cop, and that's enough for you to hold me in contempt."

He offered a thin smile. "I've had little reason to admire those in your profession."

"Part B was tougher." She came down another step so that their eyes were level. "I thought I had that figured, too, but I didn't realize that Part B had a couple of stages. Stage one: I'm not one of the glamorous, well-bred stunners that Roarke socialized with. I haven't got the looks or the pedigree or the style to suit you."

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"But you didn't want just anyone for him, Summerset. That's stage two, and I just figured that out this morning. You resent me because I'm not Marlena. That's who you wanted for him," she said quietly as the color slipped out of his cheeks. "You hoped he'd find someone who reminded you of her, instead you got stuck with an inferior mode. Tough luck all around.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Vengeance in Death

“A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted! ”
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“The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. What he disliked most of all was its tyranny. Not only did it have the power to interrupt him against his will, but inevitably he would give in to its command.”
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