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“No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.”

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Richard Curtis, born on November 8, 1956, is a renowned British screenwriter known for his humorous and light-hearted scripts. His works, including 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Mr. Bean's Holiday', have won him widespread popularity. more

“You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.”

Knows Made Moments Mistake Forever Our Lives Months Terrible I Realized Stuck Being True Crush Terrible Things Pirate Radio

Author:Richard Curtis

“The word book acted as a transient stimulus”

Book Stimulus Transient

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--”

Ifs Said Love You Flower Beggar Begging Fawns

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.”

Ifs World Said Seems Terrible Hot Chocolate Kim Mug Marshmallow Hot Chocolate

Author:Kamila Shamsie

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

Love Love You Butterfly Caterpillars Cocoons

Book:THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

Source: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

“Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.”

Ifs Dream Body Light Happens Stars Air Tomorrow Late Breaths Shining Warm Bones Dust Candle Lit Pillow Bouquets Flare

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.”

Children Earth Mother Fall Speak Fear Sleep Return Horror Soil Native Frightened Yearning Bosoms Mother Earth Withered Decrepit

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.”

Hands Courses Asks Behinds Irrational Delightful Catch Me

Author:Shana Abe

“Trust you? Rue--trust you? You counterfeited your own death rather than wed me. You told me you'd rather die than stay in Darkfrith. I can't--I don't know how to fix that. I don't know how to mend it. Tell me." He took a step toward her. "Tell me, and I'll do it.”

Knows I Can Dies Steps Know How Rue

Author:Shana Abe

“When the stakes are high, bow down low.”

Lows Stakes Bows

Author:Beth Moore

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