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“Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow”

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An American best-selling author known for her romance novels. Since publishing her first novel in 1981, Nora Roberts has written over 200 books, which have been beloved by readers worldwide. more

“Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.”

People Thinking Way Want States Father Natural Personality Selfish Vain Lazy Locks Twists Being Pretty Vapid

Book:Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series

Source: Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series

“A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.”

Knows Doe Making Love Hedgehogs

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.”

Thinking Men Might Lying Found Century Dues Tendencies Ceilings Idiocy Lying On The Floor

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!”

Vampire Lottery Disneyland

Book:Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

Ifs Book Company Good Company

Book:Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

“Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known”

Known

Author:Thomas M. Disch

“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”