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I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.
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V.E. Schwab (A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1))
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I'd rather die my way than live yours.
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Lauren Oliver (Delirium (Delirium, #1))
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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Kurt Cobain
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I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
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Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1))
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It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
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Maureen Corrigan (Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books)
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I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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Jack London (The Turtles of Tasman)
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I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story)
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
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E.E. Cummings
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
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Albert Einstein
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
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Terry Pratchett
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If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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George Carlin (Napalm & Silly Putty)
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I will not play at tug o' war.I'd rather play at hug o' war,Where everyone hugsInstead of tugs,Where everyone gigglesAnd rolls on the rug,Where everyone kisses,And everyone grins,And everyone cuddles,And everyone wins.
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Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends)
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I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.
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Niall Horan
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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Charles Bukowski
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It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
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Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories)
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I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.
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Neal Shusterman (Unwind (Unwind, #1))
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Franz Kafka
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I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
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Richard Bach (The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story)
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I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
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Gilda Radner
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I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.
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Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
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Abraham Lincoln
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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William Faulkner
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I'd rather argue with you, angel, then laugh with anyone else.
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Sylvia Day (Reflected in You (Crossfire, #2))
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Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
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Lauren Oliver (Delirium (Delirium, #1))
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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Emma Goldman
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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
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Françoise Sagan
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Lissa and I had been friends ever since kindergarten, when our teacher had paired us up together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds to spell Vasilisa Dragomir and Rosemarie Hathaway was beyond cruel, and we’d—or rather, I’d—responded appropriately. I’d chucked my book at out teacher and called her a fascist bastard. I hadn’t known what those words meant, but I’d known how to hit a moving target.Lissa and I had been inseparable ever since.
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Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
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Because it was all you were willing to give me. And I’d rather have you hating me than not have you at all.
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Elena Armas (The Spanish Love Deception (Spanish Love Deception, #1))
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The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whor*: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.
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Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories)
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But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.
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Cherrie Lynn (Rock Me (Ross Siblings, #2))
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I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
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I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
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Sabaa Tahir (An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1))
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
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Billy Joel
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I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.
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Susane Colasanti (Waiting for You)
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I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.
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Lucille Ball
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I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
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Gerard Way
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Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.
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Andrzej Sapkowski (The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5))
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I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
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Lauren Oliver (Delirium (Delirium, #1))
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I'd rather be broken than wasted.
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Rainbow Rowell (Fangirl)
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent
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Arthur Rimbaud (A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat)
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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Dorothy Parker
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
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Margaret Mitchell
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In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are just passing time.
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Sarah Ockler (Fixing Delilah)
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I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.
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Nora Roberts (Face the Fire (Three Sisters Island, #3))
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When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.
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David Levithan (How They Met, and Other Stories)
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I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.
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Rainbow Rowell (Fangirl)
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I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.
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Dorothy Parker
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I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.
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Joss Whedon
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Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.
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J.K. Rowling
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I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.
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Ana Monnar
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My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have..." I started crying. "Okay, how not to cry. How am I-okay. Okay."I took a few deep breaths and went back to the page. "I can't talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a Bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
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John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
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I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love.
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Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1))
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I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.
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John Green (Looking for Alaska)
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Ellen Hopkins (Identical)
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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
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Michael Moorco*ck (Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Eternal Champion, #11))
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There are other things I'd rather do when I'm alone with you." Time to step off the edge. "Then do them.
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
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I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
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Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad)
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Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency. I’d rather climb back into Hostile One’s mouth.
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Martha Wells (All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1))
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Sometimes it's hard for me to start something because I'd rather not try at all than fail at it
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Kasie West (The Distance Between Us (Old Town Shops, #1))
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If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
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Jess C. Scott (Rockstar (BDSM bromance))
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I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
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Jodi Picoult (Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1))
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I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward
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Tupac Shakur
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I'd rather be a boy and play with paper airplanes, then be a man and play with a woman's heart." -Niall Horan
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One Direction
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No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.
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Anthony Horowitz (Point Blank (Alex Rider, #2))
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Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.
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Dylan Thomas
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I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.
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Adam Silvera (History Is All You Left Me)
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.
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Billy Joel
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That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary. That. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead—
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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Maybe I could love you someday."If you ever do," he said, "come and let me know. You know where to find me."Her teeth were chattering harder. "I can't lose you, Simon. I can't."You never will. I'm not leaving you. But I'd rather have what we have, which is real and true and important, than have you pretend anything else. When I'm with you, I want to know I'm with the real you, the real Clary."She leaned her head against his, closing her eyes. He still felt like Simon, despite everything; still smelled like him, like his laundry soap. "Maybe I don't know who that is."But I do.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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Andrea Gibson
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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Tom Waits
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Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad sh*t.
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Thea Harrison (Oracle's Moon (Elder Races, #4))
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives)
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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Joanne Harris
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I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.
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Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach)
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I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
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Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)
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I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.
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Rebecca McKinsey
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I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
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Jimmy Buffett
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I take a sip of my beer, and it's - I mean, it's just astonishingly disgusting. I don't think I was expecting it to taste like ice cream, but holy f*cking hell. People lie and get fake IDs and sneak into bars, and for this? I honestly think I'd rather make out with Bieber. The dog. Or Justin.
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Becky Albertalli (Simon vs. the hom*o Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1))
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Maybe one day you'll come back. Maybe you never will and that'll suck, but you can't keep doing this. The blame and the self-loathing and the bullsh*t. I can't watch that. It makes me hate you for hating yourself. I don't want to lose you. But I'd rather lose you if it means you'll be happy. I think if you come back with me today, you'll never be okay. And I'll never be okay if you aren't. I need to know that there's a way for people like us to end up okay. I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, maybe even good, and it's out there and we just haven't found it yet. There's got to be a happier ending than this, here. There's got to be a better story. Because we deserve one. You deserve one. Even if it doesn't end with you coming back to me.
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Katja Millay (The Sea of Tranquility)
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I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom--not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.
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Tahereh Mafi (Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3))
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I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.
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Joquesse Eugenia
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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
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T.S. Eliot (The co*cktail Party)
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Baby?” he called and he felt her eyes on him.“Yeah?” she replied, her sweet voice soft, another tone he was getting used to and this was because the last couple of days it had started to come at him often.“Do me a favor?”“Sure.”“In a second, I’m gonna pull over, get out my gun and give it to you. When I do, shoot me with it.”“What?” she whispered.“I’m facin’ another hour and a half of your music. I’d rather be dead.”Silence then, “Shut up.
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Kristen Ashley (Lady Luck (Colorado Mountain, #3))
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Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon
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Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 (Sailor Moon, #1))
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Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Nobody or Nowhere? Fern: I'd rather be nobody at home than somebody somewhere else.Ambrose: I'd rather be nowhere. Being nobody when you're expected to be somebody gets old.Fern: How would you know? Have you been nobody?Ambrose: Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail.
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Amy Harmon (Making Faces)
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For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I’m now told that this is not called “going to sleep” but rather “passing out,” a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment.
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David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
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I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.
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Golda Poretsky
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A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.
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Jonathan Stroud (Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3))
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I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.
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Jim Butcher (Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1))
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And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day and type up your letters and carry your boxes and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don't listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and take pictures of you when you're sleeping and get up to fetch you coffee and bagels and Danish and go to Florent and drink coffee at midnight and have you steal my cigarettes and never be able to find a match and tell you about the tv programme I saw the night before and take you to the eye hospital and not laugh at your jokes and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much I love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your breasts your arse yourand sit on the steps smoking till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps smoking till you come home and worry when you're late and be amazed when you're early and give you sunflowers and go to your party and dance till I'm black and be sorry when I'm wrong and happy when you forgive me and look at your photos and wish I'd known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin and get scared when you're angry and your eye has gone red and the other eye blue and your hair to the left and your face oriental and tell you you're gorgeous and hug you when you're anxious and hold you when you hurt and want you when I smell you and offend you when I touch you and whimper when I'm next to you and whimper when I'm not and dribble on your breast and smother you in the night and get cold when you take the blanket and hot when you don't and melt when you smile and dissolve when you laugh and not understand why you think I'm rejecting you when I'm not rejecting you and wonder how you could think I'd ever reject you and wonder who you are but accept you anyway and tell you about the tree angel enchanted forest boy who flew across the ocean because he loved you and write poems for you and wonder why you don't believe me and have a feeling so deep I can't find words for it and want to buy you a kitten I'd get jealous of because it would get more attention than me and keep you in bed when you have to go and cry like a baby when you finally do and get rid of the roaches and buy you presents you don't want and take them away again and ask you to marry me and you say no again but keep on asking because though you think I don't mean it I do always have from the first time I asked you and wander the city thinking it's empty without you and want what you want and think I'm losing myself but know I'm safe with you and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me because you don't deserve any less and answer your questions when I'd rather not and tell you the truth when I really don't want to and try to be honest because I know you prefer it and think it's all over but hang on in for just ten more minutes before you throw me out of your life and forget who I am and try to get closer to you because it's beautiful learning to know you and well worth the effort and speak German to you badly and Hebrew to you worse and make love with you at three in the morning and somehow somehow somehow communicate some of the overwhelming undying overpowering unconditional all-encompassing heart-enriching mind-expanding on-going never-ending love I have for you.
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Sarah Kane (Crave)
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You must have had such a great childhood with a man like that for your father. (Delphine)Yeah. All puppy dogs and rainbows and those weird furry people with padded coat hangers on their heads that look like space aliens on acid. (Jericho)You mean the Teletubbies? (Berith)The fact that you know what they're called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho)As a demon of torture, it behooves me to know all things that are deeply annoying. You'd be amazed how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as Teletubbies. (Berith)Not really. I'd rather battle a brain-eating zombie any day than hear them sing. (Jericho)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dream Warrior (Dream-Hunter, #4; Dark-Hunter, #17))
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However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing.I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.
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Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1))
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Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. Perchance you have considered the riddle I posed you that day in the inn?” “It has crossed my mind a time or two,” Tyrion admitted. “The king, the priest, the rich man—who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It’s a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword.” “And yet he is no one,” Varys said. “He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel.” “That piece of steel is the power of life and death.” “Just so… yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?” “Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords.” “Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they?” Varys smiled. “Some say knowledge is power. Some tell us that all power comes from the gods. Others say it derives from law. Yet that day on the steps of Baelor’s Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd. Who truly killed Eddard Stark, do you think? Joffrey, who gave the command? Ser Ilyn Payne, who swung the sword? Or… another?” Tyrion co*cked his head sideways. “Did you mean to answer your damned riddle, or only to make my head ache worse?” Varys smiled. “Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.” “So power is a mummer’s trick?” “A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” Tyrion smiled. “Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I’d feel sad about it.” “I will take that as high praise.
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George R.R. Martin (A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2))
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I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Earth. But I got stuck on explaining why we don't fall off the planet. Gravity is just a word. It doesn't explain anything. If I could get past gravity, I'd tell them how we reproduce, how long we've been here, apparently, and a little bit about evolution. I didn't learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It's also a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Damon: I wanted to apologize.Elena: Good.Damon: Let me finish. I said I wanted to. And then I realized, I’m not sorry.Elena: You would rather die than be human, and you expect me to be okay with that?Damon: I didn’t say you were supposed to be okay with it, I just said I’m not sorry. But you know what I really am? Selfish, because I make bad choices that hurt you. Yes, I would rather have died than be human. I’d rather die right now than spend a handful of years with you, only to lose you when I’m too old and sick and miserable and you’re still you. I’d rather die right now than spend my last final years remembering how good I had it and how happy I was, because that’s who I am, Elena, and I’m not gonna change. And there’s no apology in the world that encompasses all the reasons that I’m wrong for you.Elena: Fine, then I’m not sorry either. I’m not sorry that I met you. I’m not sorry that knowing you has made me question everything, that in death you’re the one that made me feel most alive. You’ve been a terrible person, you’ve made all the wrong choices, and of all the choices that I’ve made this will prove to be the worst one. But I am not sorry that I’m in love with you. I love you, Damon. I love you.
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L.J. Smith
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What’s three?” I asked, hoping to move away from this uncomfortable topic.The smile pulled at his lips again.“Three.” One of his hands cupped my face and the other slid around my back. He pulled my body against his and my heart began to pound. I took advantage of my free hand and pushed at his chest.“I don’t think so, Lily,” he said. “If you want to get rid of me, you’ll need to do better than that.”I drew a sharp breath and tried to wiggle away, but he held me firmly in place, watching me struggle. He grinned as he lifted me up onto the sink.“What are you doing?” I started to panic. “Someone could come in!”“If they see us, they’ll just turn around and get out of here,” he murmured, lips touching my ear. “No one crosses me.”His hips pressed against my knees, opening them, pushing my skirt up my legs. I gripped his shirt, clinging to him so I wouldn’t fall into the sink. His hand pushed into my lower back. I gasped as his body fitted against mine.Heat flooded my chest, my pelvis. I thought I would drown in it.“We can’t—” His lips stopped my words. The kiss just made me dizzier. I dug my fingers into his shoulders.“You said you didn’t want to be left alone.” His tongue flicked over my cheekbone. “This is me pestering you.”“Aren’t you breaking the rules?” I could barely get the words out. “What about the union?”“I’d rather have you on my own terms.” His hand slipped between my thighs.All strength fled my limbs. “I can’t breathe.”“That means you like it.” He kissed me again.
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Andrea Cremer (Nightshade (Nightshade, #1; Nightshade World, #4))
