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“Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.”

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.”

Knows Humans Littles Jesus Human Beings Cases Divine Ten Creatures Bird Stronger Instruments Instinct Complicated Traps Commandments Monkeys Ten Commandments Forged Divine Power Love Bird

Author:Paulo Coelho

“with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.”

Ifs Should Writing Littles Long Ends Whole Lines Ten Accomplish Whole Life Sweetness Long Life

Book:The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Source: The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.”

Years Littles Said Past Bits My Own Mistake Ought Ten Little Bit Ordinary Years Ago Trifles Shiver

Book:Can You Forgive Her?

Source: Can You Forgive Her?

“After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through. ***TWO QUESTIONS*** Would the gates shut behind her? Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out? As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck. Actually. Forget the ten minutes. The gates open now.”

Littles Two Important Forget Behinds Minutes Ten Luck Finals Speed Gates Cracks Nerves Thieves Requirements Goodwill Stealth Thievery Liesel Liesel Meminger

Author:Markus Zusak

“Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.”

Looks Littles I Can Waiting Nice Impossible Feet Wall One Day Ten Tables Finished Kitchen Proportion Dimensions Grain Wait For Him

Book:Endgame and Act Without Words

Source: Endgame and Act Without Words

“The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.”

“Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.”

Littles Together Sleep Walks Dying Hair Thousand Ten Late Too Late Wages Moonlight

Author:Galway Kinnell

“The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.”

Littles Mother Girl Asks Born Laughing Baby Arms Ten Six Response Pounds Liz

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.”

Littles Moments Turns My Own Pleasure Laughing Sky Minutes Ten Rain Smoke Little Things Camels Cheeseburger

Author:Ethan Hawke

“January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.”

People Writing Firsts Wells Littles Has Beens I Can Book Light Inspiration Hours Silence Alive Reader Lucky Solitude Ten Eight Relax Surround Candle Muse January Lucky Day

Author:Isabel Allende