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• There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

  Patrick Ness

  Waterfalls

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• There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Writing, Ideas

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).

  James Hillman

  War, Heart, Thinking

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• Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspirational, Strength, Vampire

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• Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

  Sherman Alexie

  Winter, Night, Feet

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Childhood, Phrases, Veils

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans forward over the candle, the shadow of the flame dancing against his bottom lip. I lean forward to meet him as well. It's a kiss full of promise, of trust, and of all that is magic.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Heart, Eye, Kissing

  Laurie Faria Stolarz (2011). “White is for Magic”, p.284, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of the gods suggested the top of the highest mountain, another the farthest star, a third spoke up for the dark side of the moon, and another for the bottom of the deepest ocean. Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart. In that way, we would search for it all over the universe, with the secret within us all the time.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Stars, Ocean, Heart

  Stephen Kendrick (2007). “Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes”, p.39, Vintage

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• The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

  Che Guevara

  Lakes, Dust, Cities

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.

  Marcel Proust

  Moving, Book, Philosophical

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• I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

  Paul Theroux

  Found, Reminders, Company

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Struggle, Fall, Thinking

  Daphne du Maurier (2000). “The Scapegoat”, p.200, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.

  Ted Hughes

  Pain, Voice, Trying

  Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Lonely, Love You

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

  Rick Riordan

  Love, Cute, Son

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1196, Penguin UK

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• The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

  Jodi Picoult

  I Love You, Falling In Love, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

  Sharon Creech

  Alive, Celebration, Understood

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• You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

  Elliot Perlman

  Sleep, Water, Wake Up

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• I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Teaching, Knowledge, Men

  "Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 1999.

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Beach, Rain

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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• America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Memories, Past, Rivers

  Marilyn Herbert, Khaled Hosseini (2006). “Book Club in a Box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel The Kite Runner”, p.51, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don't necessarily sense the motion. I've found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.

  Jane Hamilton

  Hurt, Thinking, Two

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• I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Reflection, Space

  Don DeLillo (2003). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

  Gene Wolfe

  Feel Better, Things In Life, Knowing

  Gene Wolfe (2007). “Pirate Freedom”, p.252, Macmillan

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