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A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
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When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her
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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.
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It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
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He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles
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Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.
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No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
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Wizards don't all look alike.
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I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
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Samuel laughed out loud. You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.
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Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
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Stefan: Indian with a dot, not a feather.
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Being a martyr is highly overrated.
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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.
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Survivors can't always choose their methods.
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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
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I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
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