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• The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Believe, Goal, Effort

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• And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eggs, Broken, Trying

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.93, Penguin

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• He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Eye, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1434, Simon and Schuster

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• Nicely done, brother," said Gabriel from the bed, blinking sleepy green eyes at Gideon. Gideon threw a scone at him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Eye, Bed

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.

  Adam Young

  Faithful Servants, Lines, Priceless

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• There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.

  J. K. Rowling

  Blame, No Point

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• Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

  Immanuel Kant

  People, Injustice, Whole

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• Simon had been all lined up and he’d managed to throw away the best girl he’d ever meet. “What a dumbass,” Beck muttered. “No way I’d have done that.

  Jana Oliver

  Girl, Dumbasses, Way

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.418, Pan Macmillan

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• She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

  Neil Gaiman

  Father, Heart, Mind

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• What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Stronger, World, Injustice

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• I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Thinking, Nightmare

  Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.

  Kristin Cashore

  Lasts, Enough, Good Things

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.230, Penguin

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• This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, Doors, People

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

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• She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is,' and she sounded proud. In that moment I forgot my hunger and I forgot my fear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hands, Quality, Proud

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• Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER

  Shel Silverstein

  Sometimes, Havens

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• Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

  David Levithan

  Wrapping Paper, Kind, Truth Is

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.42, Egmont UK

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• I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pain, Good Life, Grief

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.367, Penguin

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• There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done." "Sounds easy enough." "Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?" "Maybe later," said Gracious. "How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.

  Derek Landy

  Wall, Good Luck, Kissing

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• For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Ends

  William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1860). “All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2”, p.343

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• It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Past, Mint

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• It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Years, Long, Damage

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Serendipity, Lines, Gravity

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.217, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Her smile faded. “Do you know the worst thing about it? I forgot him. Daemon was a friend, and I forgot him. That Winsol, before I was…he gave me a silver bracelet. I don’t know what happened to it. I had a picture of him. I don’t know what happened to that either. And then he gave everything he had to help me, and when it was done, everyone walked away from him as if he didn’t matter.

  Anne Bishop

  Matter, Helping, Silver

  Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc

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• I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.

  Ally Carter

  Song, Father, Dark

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• The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

  Stephen King

  Mirrors, Blood, Single Word

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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