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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...

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as the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting ne...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Woodcourt: “Miss Summerson,” said Mr. Woodcourt, “if without obtruding myself on your confidence I m...

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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's sti...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from ...

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from bein...

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Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dr...

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powe...

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A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the ac...

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Friedrich NietzscheAphorisms on Love and Hate

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical...

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He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, ye...

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In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, ha...

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Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You ...

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In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of...

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You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promi...

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and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

When I had to leave she kissed me on both cheeks - a thing she had never done before - and said, 'Th...

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How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Then, suddenly again, Christopher Robin, who was still looking at the world, with his chin in his ha...

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For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualis...

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. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall