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I may not care about how I look, but I care that I am heard. — Carljoe Javier

I'm a Giants fan through and through. I am crazy about Eli Manning. I'm all about the Giants. — Jesse McCartney

All right," I said. "Keep in touch with cell phones." "We don't have cell phones," Silena protested. I reached down, picked up some snoring lady's BlackBerry and tossed it to Silena. "You do now. You all know Annabeth's number, right? If you need us, pick up a random phone and call us. Use it once, drop it, then borrow another one if you have to. That should make it harder for the monsters to zero in on you." Everyone grinned as though they liked this idea. Travis cleared his throat. "Uh, if we find a really nice phone - " "No, you can't keep it," I said. "Aw, man. — Rick Riordan

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American. — Cedric Richmond

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck." ... Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice. — Naomi Wolf

I imagined there were more pleasant things to do on a late-summer morning than pick up your only son from prison. — Michael Sears

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. — William Shenstone

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product. — Neil Cavuto

She is dark. He is fair. She comes from there. He comes from here. They like each other. It is an easy and lovely lust ... — Deborah Levy