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• I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Who I Am, Seems

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• For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Who I Am, Long, Wake Up

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

  Gregory Maguire

  New Year, Hate, Years

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• We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

  Liane Moriarty

  Baby, Children, Party

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• It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow"(Kish) Dying cows don't sulk." (sin) How do you know? Do you make it a habit to hang around dying cows?" (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dying, Cows, Sin

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• I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

  Christopher Paolini

  Past, Repent, Plague

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.419, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how one woman can have so much black hair. You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. You will always run away with her. You will always lose her. You will always be a fool. You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear. You have already done all of this and will do it again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Falling In Love, Cutting

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• I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Fallen

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Walk To Remember”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Evil, Choices

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Hair, World

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he was really seeing me for the first time. "I don't think I ever really lived until this. I've never done anything that mattered before, but now I'm fighting to save my life, and yours. And I know it sounds really cheesy and lame, but I don't think I ever really felt alive. Not until I met you.

  Amanda Hocking

  Eye, Fighting, Thinking

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• The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Men, Names

  "Fictional character: Jaqen H'ghar". "Game of Thrones". Season 2, Episode 5: "The Ghost of Harrenhal", www.imdb.com. April 29, 2012.

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• Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

  Lorrie Moore

  Numbness, World, Helping

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Oct 29, 2012

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• He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Strong, Reading, Home

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.289, Egmont UK

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• It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

  Tamora Pierce

  Winning, Night, Defense

  Tamora Pierce (2017). “Alanna: The Song of the Lioness”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

  Daniel Handler

  Stupid, Ideas, Broke Up

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• What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

  Peter Straub

  Worst, Happened, Worst Things

  Peter Straub (2015). “Ghost Story”, p.29, Penguin

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• There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Names, Scotland

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.18, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Brain, Sometimes

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beach, Luxury, Water

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Father, Faithful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

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• No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

  Blake Nelson

  Opportunity, Doors, Matter

  Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

  Dean Koontz

  Reflection, Devil, Brutality

  Dean Ray Koontz (1991). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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• Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

  A. A. Milne

  Mean, Thinking, Owl

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