He shook his head, just looking at me.
- "What?" I asked.
- "Nothing" he said.
- "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."
I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-"
- "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman."
- "Never seen it."
- "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell."
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life.

John Green

Tags: life love silence real-life smile smiling girl boy beautiful lovers lover real flirt john-green vendetta awkward gorgeous hazel the-fault-in-our-stars augustus looking-at-me natalie-portman turn-me-on

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(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22

Sanford Kwinter

Tags: time real duration

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La traición nunca prospera, cual será la razón?
Que si prospera, nadie osa llamarla traición.

John Harrington

Tags: real clockwork-prince

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...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...

John Geddes

Tags: perfection honest real broken authentic

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Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.

Jill Telford

Tags: quote real no-lies

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I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I
should have given her was a real journey on earth.

Mathias Malzieu

Tags: love journey moon earth voyage real

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Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

Elias Williams

Tags: inspirational real reality-check

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Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

John Scalzi

Tags: people live ideals real way damn peaceful

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(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with "imaginary riders")

Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and round in circles, striving ever forward only to have to run like crazy backwards to get the ball again, realizing that your enemy is after the same goal and you're actually helping him toward it and getting roughed up and possibly killed while you're at it but still feeling the comradeship of being in the game all together.

Susan Trott

Tags: truth philosophical real meaningful

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The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.

Shannon L. Alder

Tags: equality perspective difference people unique admiration personalities diversity being-real real love-one-another no-ego

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