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“It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.”

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Lauren Oliver, born in 1982, is an accomplished American author known for her profound emotional depth and imaginative storytelling. Her works have garnered widespread acclaim and have resonated with readers around the world. more

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.”

Source: Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)

“Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.”

People Knows Two Sometimes Happened Regard Wide

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006

“And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.”

Ifs Said Done Three Courses Five Four Paper Hundred Remains Sixty Doubtful Through The Looking Glass Humpty Dumpty

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.”

Two Turns Cases Sun Sea Setting Settings Favourite Electric Items Incompetent Overlooked Waiter Balconies

Author:Douglas Adams

“And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.”

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.”

Wanted Monsters

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.”

Whole Whole Life

Author:Sara Gruen

“Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?”

Car Horse Smell Ems Packs Baggage Jacob Wade Manure

Author:Sara Gruen

“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”

Way Life Is Memories Solace Good Memories

Book:By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel

Source: By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel

“You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.”

Ifs Want Wells Might Desire Wish Sky Red Well Wishes Want You Back

Author:Sophie Kinsella

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