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People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
Stephen KingStephen King You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
Stephen KingStephen King Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen KingStephen King FEAR stands for face everything and recover.
Stephen KingStephen King The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
Stephen KingStephen King All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.
Stephen KingStephen King Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen KingStephen King Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
Stephen KingStephen King Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
Stephen KingStephen King God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen KingStephen King Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.
Stephen KingStephen King If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen KingStephen King Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
Stephen KingStephen King Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
Stephen KingStephen King Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen KingStephen King In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
Stephanie BriarStephanie Briar I still pick at these memories of you; I pick them until they bleed.
Nicole LyonsNicole Lyons Oh my darling, you mustn’t fill up on memories alone, there is heartache and regret yet to be served.
Nicole LyonsNicole Lyons Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
Willie NelsonWillie Nelson I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma’s kitchen is probably my fondest memories I’ll ever have.
Trixie MattelTrixie Mattel Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don’t have film.
Steven WrightSteven Wright Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven WrightSteven Wright