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• Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who can cow others with a single growl. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Looks, Irs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.72, Macmillan

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• He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn’t know when he’s going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where he’s going, or who he’s going to help, or what exactly he’s up to!” Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs.

  Katie MacAlister

  Desperate Situations, Zoom, Want

  Katie Macalister (2007). “Holy Smokes: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.101, Penguin

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• You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right? (Geary) It’s for a good cause. We need more addicts. Besides, there’s always Grandpa to bail me out with an emergency shipment if I get too desperate. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Pie, Grandpa

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• As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

  John Green

  Bipolar

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.27, Penguin

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• And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

  Hart Crane

  Wind, Voice, Long

  Hart Crane (1970). “The bridge: a poem”

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• The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

  Suzanne Collins

  Giving Up, Desperate Measures, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.75, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

  Emilie Autumn

  Life, Dream, Sleep

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• I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Trying, News

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Keys, Effort

  Hannah Arendt (1973). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

  John Cheever

  Night, Empty Life, Coffins

  John Cheever (2010). “Collected Stories”, p.97, Random House

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• It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Two, People, Needs

  Madeleine L'Engle (1968). “Prelude”

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• No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Teeth, Savages

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.495, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Motivational, Encouraging, Cheerful

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

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• This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

  William Shakespeare

  Violent, Hamlet Love, Ecstasy

  1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet. Hamlet, act 2, sc.1, l.103-5.

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• You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Sexy, Clever

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.278, A&C Black

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• I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Illustration, Married

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

  Anais Nin

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Blood, Water

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

  Jodi Picoult

  Succeed, Nothing To Lose, Loses

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Lying, Believe, Passion

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• Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Waiting, Pebbles, Velocity

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• The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Wise, Work, Intelligent

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• The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doctors, Somewhere Else, Nurse

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Way, Comedy

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