“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.”
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.”
~Peter Benchley, Jaws
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Hi, everybody, this is your Cousin Brucie. Whoa! Our summer romances are in full bloom, and everybody, but everybody’s in love. So cousins, here’s a great song from The Four Seasons.
That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn’t occur to me to mind.
~ Dirty Dancing
“At first, I was afraid. I was petrified.
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side.”
~ Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive
I come home in the morning light
My mother says when you gonna live your life right
Oh mother dear we’re not the fortunate ones
And girls they want to have fun
Oh girls just want to have fun
~Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have Fun
“I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind”
~The Killers, Human
“We called him Old Yeller.”
~Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
“Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost.”
~ Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, The Inferno
“Take this pink ribbon off my eyes”
~No Doubt, Just a Girl
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.”
~ The Departed
“Some people call me the space cowboy. Some call me the gangster of love.”
~Steve Miller Band, The Joker
“I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.”
~Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
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