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If someone is trying to share a laugh and you personally do not find it funny, then just move on and leave it alone. Do not steal someone else’s humor.

Oops! Did I Really Post That

Do you get a percentage for every soul you corrupt or is this just how you get your kicks?” I enquired. “Take it as a compliment. I only try to corrupt people I like.

One For The Wedding

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

Painting and Guns

I rolled my eyes, trying to keep my eyes off his body, just the sight of his abs or arms was enough to make me want to get naked and let Carlo take over anything he wanted.

Polar

It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'" "That's great," Lana said. "Invincible. I can't be vinced." "That's not even a word," Lana said. "Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said.

Plague

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

I'll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don't like gray areas.

The Paris Journal: Book One

What do you resist examining up close? How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

For so long, I hadn't really Margo - I'd seen her screaming and thought her laughing - that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her.

Paper Towns

I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

Q & A

Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.

The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

My love is a cloud sound, silent as an orange flamingo. Too many swimmers have drowned while trying to fly, and there should be a law against making a law against that.


This Book is Not FOR SALE

The best part about being a waiter is all that waiting. Use that time wisely. Try making it as an actor.

The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

Every new thought of mine is like my child. And as soon as it is conceived, I must abandon it. I might return to dote on it later, or I might try to strangle it or drown it with logic.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He was cold and ugly, so I lent him my invisible cloak. He was grateful and said if I was ever in the area again, I should try to find him.

This Book is Not FOR SALE