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Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, Mmm. O positive, my favorite.Keith sprayed out the wine he'd just drunk and promptly started coughing. I was relieved that none got on me. Jill burst into giggles, and Clarence stared at his glass wonderingly. Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon. So it is, said Adrian, straight-faced. My mistake. — Richelle Mead

I know nothing I'm doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I'm just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I'm doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look out the window and know what I'm seeing, and I know some people I like to be with, and I like what I do all day long, and maybe that's all that realness is, anyway — Robert Penn Warren A Place to Come...

You're joining us for dinner, I hope? asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. I guess? I said. I have to be home by ten. Also I don't, um, eat meat? No problem. We'll vegetarianize some, she said. Animals are just too cute? Gus asked. I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for, I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself. — John Green The Fault in Our...

"Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed." — John Marsden Tomorrow, When...

I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. On your head? Apparently. Good thing it's hard, huh? — Sherrilyn Kenyon The Dream Hunter

You're trying to convince me? The one who has a second apartment two blocks from her first apartment just so she can get away from her rabbit for a couple of hours a day? — David Sedaris Calypso

No milk, — Neil Gaiman Fortunately, the...

As I turned the key and pushed open the front door, as I crossed the threshold, I thought how breathtaking, how fleeting, how precious was my ordinary day Now is now. Here is my treasure. — Gretchen Rubin Happier at Home:...

When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap. — Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

Eric had to make me wake up for long enough to take out my contacts. — Julie Powell Julie & Julia:...

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that...

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

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