“But even when he wasn't around, he was.”

— Khaled Hosseini , book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

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novelist 1965

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.
Source: Devil May Cry

“He was a tennis icon but when he won the French Open I wasn't even born, I'm from a generation that knows him as a singer.”

Gilles Simon (1984) French tennis player

“The most solid documentary of the week was White Rhodesia (BBC1), presented by Hugh Burnett. He was on screen only two or three times and even when he was there you would have sworn he wasn't.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

'A load of chunk'
Essays and reviews, The Crystal Bucket (1982)

“Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours.

-Phury's thoughts”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Variant: Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours.
Source: Lover Unbound

“It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as
if she were losing her mind. And when he
kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

“No. I would have felt more awkward if I'd been a fan. I was around 15 when I realized he was inescapable. Even if I was in a car and had the radio on, there's my dad. He's larger than life and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love to put them on a pedestal. If Kurt had just been another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible… But he wasn't. He inspired people to put him on a pedestal, to become St. Kurt.”

Frances Bean Cobain (1992) American artist

Response to the question, "Did you feel awkward as a teenager, not being that interested in the music Kurt made?"
" Frances Bean Cobain on Life After Kurt's Death: An Exclusive Q&A http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/frances-bean-life-after-kurt-cobain-death-exclusive-interview-20150408" (2015)

“Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time; he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking were making him… you know, he wasn't even present, really.”

Jack Osbourne (1985) Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne

MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery

“But even when he wasn't around, he was.”

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