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He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?
J. K. RowlingRead
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
Robert BrowningRead
Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.
Charles BukowskiRead
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.
Alice SeboldRead
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
Therese Of LisieuxRead
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?
Neil GaimanRead
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
Timothy KellerRead
Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.
J. K. RowlingRead
Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Read
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.
Charlotte BronteRead
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Khalil GibranRead
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.
RumiRead
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George HerbertRead
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
Charles BukowskiRead
Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
Virginia WoolfRead
I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.
RumiRead
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
Therese Of LisieuxRead
It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.
Thomas MooreRead
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
Ernest DowsonRead
Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.
C. S. LewisRead

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