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• We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

  Pearl Cleage

  Crazy, Ordinary Days, Like Love

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• Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

  Tennessee Williams

  Regret, Long, Affair

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Imagination, Waiting

  "The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery".

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• I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of my hand Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree But now you're here Brighten my northern sky.

  Nick Drake

  Crazy, Moon, Hands

  Song: Northern Sky, Album: Bryter Layter, 1971

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• If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Winning, Thinking, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.130, Penguin

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• Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Romantic, Art

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.110

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• When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

  Anne Michaels

  Gratitude, Book, Simple

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• (Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Night, Wind, Voice

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• Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Ambition, Men

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• Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

  Robin McKinley

  Silly, Heart, Giving

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Money, Inspirational Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.

  Amy Lowell

  Cat, Moon, Night

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.133, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lying, Eye, Yellow

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• See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Brother, Flower, Kissing

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

  Rex Stout

  Summer, Men, Water

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• Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Kindness, Twilight

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• it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart, as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be, i say if this should be- you of my heart, send me a little word; that i may go unto him, and take his hands, saying, Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

  e. e. cummings

  Strong, Heart, Hair

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Simpsons/ The Old Man and the Lisa". Animation, Comedy, 1997.

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• She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Hands, Giving, Body

  Gary Shteyngart (2006). “Absurdistan: A Novel”, p.212, Random House

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• That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

  Janet Fitch

  Memories, Bitter, Forget

  Janet Fitch (2006). “Paint It Black: A Novel”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Hate, Remembrance

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.211, Penguin

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• A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Philosophy, Ambition, Soul

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.34

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• O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Laughter, Lying

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

  Oscar Wilde

  Engagement, Owing, Insult

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• She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on.

  Markus Zusak

  Love, Goodbye, Regret

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2005.

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