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I’m wild. I’m hectic. We can do hectic things together like: not get invited to parties, watch DVD extras twice, put mandarin slices up against the light to see if they have any seeds… I’ll see you guys in two days.
Natalie Tran
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I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Barack Obama
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I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens.
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| J. K. Rowling: | I said to Arthur, my American editor - we had an interesting conversation during the editing of seven - the moment when Harry takes Draco's wand, Arthur said, God, that's the moment when the ownership of the Elder wand is actually transferred? And I said, that's right. He said, shouldn't that be a bit more dramatic? And I said, no, not at all, the reverse. I said to Arthur, I think it really puts the elaborate, grandiose plans of Dumbledore and Voldemort in their place. That actually the history of the wizarding world hinged on two teenage boys wrestling with each other. They weren't even using magic. It became an ugly little corner tussle for the possession of wands. And I really liked that - that very human moment, as opposed to these two wizards who were twitching strings and manipulating and implanting information and husbanding information and guarding information, you know? Ultimately it just came down to that, a little scuffle and fistfight in the corner and pulling a wand away. |
| Melissa Anelli: | It says a lot about the world at large, I think, about conflict in the world, it's these little things - |
| J. K. Rowling: | And the difference one individual can make. Always, the difference one individual can make. |
Sharon Shinn, The Shape of Desire
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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Everyone’s memory is a mess. Life is a mess. Everyone’s got memories of a holiday they couldn’t have been on, or a party they never went to, or met someone for the first time and felt like they’d known them all their lives. Time is being rewritten all around us. People think their memories are bad, but their memories are fine. The past is really like that.
The Doctor, Doctor Who
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Those electric moments come just often enough keep you going, to fight for the next one. It’s like an addiction, where it makes your life terrible in so many ways, but there’s this moment of exhilaration that you’re waiting for and then it comes and then you feel like it’s all been worth it.
John Green on writing, in this interview.
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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