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“Home is the place where they have to take you in”

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Diana Gabaldon is a renowned American author, best known for her historical fantasy novel series 'Outlander'. Her works blend elements of history, love, adventure, and science fiction, captivating readers worldwide. more

“How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it to her, - but what will she say?' 'I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, "That man!" ' 'Hush!' said Margaret, 'or I shall try and show you your mother's indignant tones as she says, "That woman!"”

Men Trying Firsts Said I Can Shows Mother Speak Silence Let Me Tone Delicious Aunt Hush Exclamation Indignant

Book:North and South

Source: North and South

“Choose well or die. I don’t care which. Just don’t get blood on my coat.”

Wells Care Dies Blood Don't Care I Don't Care Coats

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.”

Ifs Pain Past Periods Elements Infinite Perceive Enlightened Blank

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.”

Born Opinion Fate Extraordinary Favourite Falsehood Maxims Marianne Dashwood

Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.”

Mean Self Term Torture Homework

Author:James Patterson

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.”

Said Eternity Absence Extensions

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

Believe Form Courses Mines Standards

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.”

Source: Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files

“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.”

Night Stars Alive Womb June Splendour

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

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