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“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

People Trying Heart Felt Realizing Hurt Dark Return My Heart Protect Late Shots Guilt Too Late Wounded Hurt Me Charlotte Wedges Splinters

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)”

Ifs Needs Life Is Asks Given Accepting Return Words Of Wisdom Expectations Favors Sooner Or Later

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.”

Ifs Men Way Want Trying Persons Different Stars Sound Morning Influence Return Safe Sick Tired Mood Curse Sentiments Educate Hail Letting You Go Gait Safe And Sound

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”

Ifs Want Humans Made Helping Dream Body Dies Stars Sleep Tree Return Spring Rain Roots My Family Shoes Nuclear Dust Mess Apples Dry Pockets Buried Ashes Glitter Confetti

Author:Jenny Downham

“It's twilight. It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?”

Thinking Way Ends Night Darkness Return Twilight Predictable Saddest Another Day Time Of Day Twilight Edward Twilight Book

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.”

Wells Return Defined

Book:I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

Source: I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

Ifs Moments Light Return Madness Chaos Complicated Welcome Not Afraid Reunion Premonition Lucidity

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.”

World Soul Ends Sometimes Night Sky Return Moon Busy Disappear

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.”

Looks Children Helping Feelings Wanted Faces House Return Sand Pastor

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.”

Want Kind Persons Doe Return Publicity

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him.” Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. “And?” "You’re the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well.”

Knows Men Want Wells Mines Return My Friends Capacity Opposites Eyebrows Imitating Capacity To Love

Book:Magic Bleeds

Source: Magic Bleeds

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”

Source: The Secret Life of Water

“She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.”

Men World Love Needs Giving Age Order Easy Company Return Appearance Despite Submit Foolishness Premature Eagerness

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own...you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.”

Heart Made Pain Sacrifice Return Lessons Gains Overcoming Made It Meaningless Alchemist Irreplaceable Without Pain

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?”

Children Made Views Security Return Our Children Painful Compromise Why Not Offering Negotiation Priceless Concessions Security And Freedom

Author:Abdallah II

“Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.”

“Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?”

Said Moments Earth Mother Father Felt Waiting Laughing Air Arms Return Dare Warmth Peter Again And Again Nothingness Sweetness Suspended Augustus Up In The Air Come Back To Me Return To Me

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“We must return to nature and nature's god.”

Nature Return Environmental Comeback World Environment

Author:Luther Burbank

“For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.”

Sleep Accepting Return Difficulty Blind Hunger Hungry Hunts Idleness Seers

Book:Through Wolf's Eyes

Source: Through Wolf's Eyes

“Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.”

Giving Return Momma

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“Return with your shield, or upon it.’ (Julian's stepmother)”

Return Shields Stepmothers

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.”

Pain Sacrifice Return Lessons Gains Meaningless Without Pain

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.”

“To our brothers and sisters in harm’s way, we say that we pray for you. We pray that the Lord will watch over you and preserve you from injury and that you may return home and pick up your lives again. We know that you are not in that land of blowing sand and brutal heat because you enjoy the games of war. The strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in which you believe.”

“All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.”

Law Love Is Teacher Mystery Return

Book:Spiral Dance: Slipcase

Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase

“But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.”

Ifs Giving Might Special Return Kissing Give Me Hug Brotherly Special Gifts

Book:Dragonskin Slippers

Source: Dragonskin Slippers

“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”

I Can Different Real Ends Problem Universe Return Solve Idiot New Beginnings Expanding Real Problems

Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.”

Return Charm Brevity

Book:The Dragon Variation

Source: The Dragon Variation

“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".”

Needs Feelings Return Horror Lays Caring Pits Emergence

Book:I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel

“There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.”

Men Giving Littles Stills Different Sin Return Speech Giving Up Clothes Lust Related Paradise Different Things Contrast Indulge Indulge In Ribs

Book:Juliet: A Novel

Source: Juliet: A Novel

“Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.”

Trying Felt Lord Laughing Return Evening Pleasant Cows Provoking Offense Pathetic Remarks Adieu

Author:Loretta Chase

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal…unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed)”

“Simi. Return to me. (Acheron) 'Return to me, Simi.’ Don’t go frying the goddess. Don’t go frying Thanatos. I am not a yo-yo, akri. I am a Simi. I hate it when you get me all excited about going to kill something and then tell me no. I don’t like that. It boring. You don’t ever let me have any fun anymore. (Simi)”

Hate Fun Return Let Me I Hate Excited Boring Goddess Frying Thanatos Return To Me

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful and kind,' or, subtly, 'Because you look as if you'll understand....' He says: 'Because I think you won't betray me.' I had meant to get this mean to talk to me and tell me all about it, and then be so devastatingly English that perhaps I should manage to hurt him a little in return for all the many times I've been hurt.... 'Because I think you won't betray me, because I think you won't betray me....' Now it won't be so easy.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Looks Kind Mean Littles Beautiful Easy Hurt Return Manage Betray Talk To Me Been Hurt I've Been Hurt

Author:Jean Rhys

“But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.”

“How can I ever trust you? (Acheron) You can’t. But I have lived inside your memories for the last three years. I know the pain you hide. I know the pain I caused. If I stay here, I will go mad from the screams. If I return to the Vanishing Isle, I’ll languish there alone and in time I will probably learn to hate you all over again. I don’t want to hate you anymore, Acheron. You are a god who can control human fate. Is it not possible that there was a reason why we were joined together? Surely the Fates meant for us to be brothers. (Styxx)”

Ifs Knows Want Years Humans Reason Pain Together Lasts Hate Three Memories Fate Brother Return Mad Reason Why Scream Three Years Hate You Vanishing Isle If I Stay Languish

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that'll show you." Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. "Fair enough.”

Ifs Said Enough Shows Dies Voice Deals Movement Return Fairs Raises Coffee Hiding Raise Your Voice

Book:The Demon's Covenant

Source: The Demon's Covenant

“Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's full,moist mouth,and his red,red lips were hungry against hers,drinking her in return.Their eyes closed.Fingers clutched at collars and hair,at the picnic blanket,at the grass.And as they sank down,pinning their shadows beneath them,the horizon tipped on its side,and slowly,thickly,hour by hour,the day spilled out and ebbed away. It was Kizzy's first kiss, and maybe it was her last, and it was delicious.”

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.”

Ifs Knows Men Heart May Made Purpose Turns Stuff Rocks Return Hero Ice Firm Steady Foe Be A Man Disgrace Brows Stigma

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!”

Knows World Heart Desire Pleasure Plans Ignorance Return My Heart Wide Enjoyment Disappointed Unsuccessful

Book:THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.”

Return Please Boat Canals

Author:Gordon Korman

“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.”

Ifs World Years Lasts Lying Grows Differences Gone Forever Flower Return Spring Paid Ancient Fallen Last Year Replaced Renewal Vines Petals Spring Flowers

Author:Daniel Abraham

“We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.”

Knows Firsts Moments Certain Memories One Thing Return First Time Hearing

Author:Colum McCann

“I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.”

Want Return Sitting Theater Find Me Want Him

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”

Hands Pain Return Contracts Pupils Normalcy Mockingjay Stay With Me Mockingjay Book

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.”

Long Feelings Lasts Dies Awareness Return Tired Weary

Book:Night Train to Lisbon

Source: Night Train to Lisbon

“How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked hopefully. "No." "Of course not. How silly of me. And for our return adventure we will be scaling the side of Mount Everest, hiking boots to be provided by our trusty sponsor, Barrons Books and Baubles.”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”

Body Fun Return Safe Trade Barbarians Safe Return

Book:Heir Apparent

Source: Heir Apparent

“Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world steadily tempts us. No wonder we are given instructive words from Jesus about the narrowness and the straightness of the only path available to return home: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). And then he said, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Jesus laid down strict conditions.”

Men World Way Said Home Father Jesus Given Easy Wonder Path One Thing Conditions Perspective Return Walking Overcoming Available Dimensions Strict Constrain

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

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