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• No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Suffering, World

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• This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Strong, Crazy, Animal

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• No more chances, Golden Eyes. You’re mine and I’ll draw blood to enforce my claim.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Blood, Golden

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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• The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her. The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her. He’d never been so torn. So confused. So damned horny!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Confused, Men, Doors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.78, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Who I Am, People, Knows

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “The Devil Tree”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Fighting, Shopping

  "Fictional character: Tyler Durden". "Fight Club", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.” Al cleared his throat nervously. “That’s good to know,” he said lightly. “Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.

  Kim Harrison

  Writing, Numbers, Safety

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• The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

  Friedrich Engels

  Social, Scales, Emancipation

  Friedrich Engels (1942). “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lews H. Morgan”

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• So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

  Gayle Forman

  People, Normalcy, Contradiction

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.21, Penguin

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• Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Hammers, Stones

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael, I mean." "That sounds like something he would do," said Luke. His tone was neutral, but there was something in his voice that made Clary look at him sideways. Did he not believe her? "Jace saw him die, " she added, as if to bolster her claim. "That's awful," said Luke. "Poor messed-up kid.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Believe, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Beautiful, Impatient, Diabolical

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• You have to name it to claim it

  Phil McGraw

  Names

  Phil McGraw (2015). “The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality”, p.66, Bird Street Books

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• He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Real, Hands Up, Numbers

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.10, Macmillan

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• They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

  Andre Gide

  Action, Pleasure, Natural

  ANDRE GIDE (1958). “THE IMMORALIST”

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Heart, Knowing

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin?

  Alex Sanchez

  Angel, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

  Charles Frazier

  Dark, Light, Circles

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.245, Random House

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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• They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.

  Veronica Roth

  Color, Laughing, Might

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• We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Thinking, Expression

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

  Steven Pinker

  Average, Principles, Groups

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.449, Penguin

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• Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Past, Parent

  Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Garden, Self

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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