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• Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, May, Someday

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.876, Bantam

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• I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

  James Cameron

  Strong, Character, Interesting

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• This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

  David Levithan

  Gratitude, Thinking, People

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

  Nevil Shute

  Thinking, People, May

  Nevil Shute (1991). “A Town Like Alice”

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• It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.

  Karel Capek

  Moving, People, Pieces

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• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

  Charles Dickens

  Husband, Lying, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.348, Xist Publishing

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• I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

  John Green

  Weekend, Past, Ideas

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.49, Penguin

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• Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.

  Jack Zipes

  Life Changing, Destiny, Way

  "The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World". Book by Jack Zipes, 1988.

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• Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the exchange with David, she waited to see where this one was going. "I won't be able to hold up my head in church." "Really? Oh, Shelley, I'm so sorry," Jaine said sweetly. "I didn't realize you have the dreaded Limp Neck disease. When were you diagnosed?

  Linda Howard

  Sorry, Eyebrows, Church

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

  Robin Sloan

  Sight, Knowing, Secret

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

  Rick Riordan

  Iguanas, Laughing, People

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• Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mother, Thinking, Waiting

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

  Neil Gaiman

  Ideas, Stories, Cauldrons

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• You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  I Like You, Self, Broken

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• The shouts of triumph become infectious, and I lift my voice to join in, running toward my teammates. Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher. I can't reach her, so I stand off to the side, grinning. A hand touches my shoulder. "Well done," Four says quietly.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Hands, Voice

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.94, HarperCollins UK

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• Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rags, Stories, Want

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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• From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Men, Littles

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ocean, Fall, Eye

  Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.242, Random House

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• Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Villain, Undone

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.514, Modern Library

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• Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.

  Craig Groeschel

  Pain, Lying, Believe

  Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

  Chris Colfer

  Grandma, Writing, School

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• And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

  John Lennon

  Christmas

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• Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strength, Stay Strong, Moving Forward

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

  Nick Hornby

  Taste, Harm, Terrible

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.65, Penguin

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