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And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

Terry Pratchett

Children, Hero, Daddy

"Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Cassandra Clare

Wall, Hands, Almost Done

Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's a worldwide fact men hate shopping." "How can I hate it when I've never done it?" Her lips curled into a slow, beautiful smile. "If you weren't already an angel, I'd dub you a saint. Poor guy. You have no idea what you're in for.

Gena Showalter

Beautiful, Hate, Heart

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No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks

Kim Harrison

Children, Real, Home

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You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.

T. E. Lawrence

Sleep, Autumn, Artist

Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.

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He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

Anthony Horowitz

Just Being, Being There, Enough

Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #2: Evil Star”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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„You,” the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. „New guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called. I'm done asking, so now I'm commanding. Free me.

Gena Showalter

Angel, Boys, Guy

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Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

Robert Bresson

Intuition, Ears, Ten

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To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

John Green

Thinking, House, Warfare

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.226, A&C Black

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We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Can't Change

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.120, Macmillan

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had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

Kenny Chesney

Crazy, Brave, No Excuses

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When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

Charles Baxter

Broken Heart, Jobs, Lying

Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Janette Rallison

Impossible, Sometimes, Harder

Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?

Tana French

Teenager, People, Saws

Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.287, Hachette UK

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For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Lauren Oliver

Choices, Firsts, First Time

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Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

Brandon Sanderson

Children, Hands, Use

Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1248, Macmillan

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Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

Jim Butcher

Animal, Joy, Lust

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What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

Jim Morrison

Knives, Dawn, Earth

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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sorry, Games, Play

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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

Richard Brautigan

Stars, Kids, Son

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

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You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

Anthony Horowitz

Thinking, People, Trying

Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Eagle Strike”, p.174, Penguin

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You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

Terry Pratchett

People, Way, Explanation

Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.41, Random House

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I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

Rick Riordan

Doors, Sweat, Risk

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Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done

Meg Cabot

Jobs, Hero, People

Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

Nora Roberts

Running, Long, Luck

Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.9, Penguin

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