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• I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Tired, Years

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• Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Blue, Carbon Footprint

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.

  Naoki Higashida

  Want, Way, Helping

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• You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

  Dave Eggers

  Hate, Feelings, Bags

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.113, Vintage

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• Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Want, Forgiven

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• I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at you, and I love you so much. Not because of anything you've said, or done, or anything at all. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Love You, Thinking, Looks

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• Not everything about me is cute." "That's true, some things are cute. The rest are sexy. Astonishing, agonizingly sexy. It's a wonder I can get anything done at all, when all I ever think about is the way your lips taste or how your fingertips feel on my skin or how your legs are..." "Adrian, shut up.

  Richelle Mead

  Cute, Sexy, Thinking

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• She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Sacrifice, People

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• Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.

  Veronica Roth

  Children, Eye, Tears

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• That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing it into this ocean and no one would even notice. I feel that fear again, the fear of my own size. 'Right. So?' 'So? So everything I've ever worried about or said or done, how can it possibly matter?' He shakes his head. 'It doesn't.' 'Of course it does,' I say, 'All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

  Veronica Roth

  Ocean, Cutting, Land

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• Arms wrapped around his neck, she kissed his temple. "I'm sorry I scared you." It wasn't the done thing for an archangel to admit fear, but he was hers, and she'd hurt him without meaning to; it was up to her to fix her mistake. His wings shifted, but he didn't extricate their bodies. "I didn't know fear until you, Elena. Use the power wisely.

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Sorry, Mistake

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.34, Penguin

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• Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

  Scott Lynch

  Nervous, Yeah, Pacing

  Scott Lynch (2013). “The Republic of Thieves”, p.334, Del Rey

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• Baz. "Have you ever done this before?" Simon. "Yes. No." "Yes or no?" "Yes. Not like this." Baz. "Not with a boy?" Simon. "Not when I really wanted it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Boys, Wanted, Yes Or No

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.165, Macmillan

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• You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

  Veronica Roth

  Protecting Her, Laughing, Mind

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• That was very rude of me.” “Think nothing of it. You’ve done worse.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Rude

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• But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

  Veronica Roth

  Someone You Love, Easier, Over It

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision." "You wouldn't have done it, I bet." "That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.

  Veronica Roth

  Decision, Risk, Rewards

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• She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Sacrifice, Taught

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Self, Skins

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• You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Expectations, Angry

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• You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

  Susan Howatch

  Anger, Damage, Rage

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• Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

  Albert Camus

  Anger, Lasts, Argument

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• Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
  Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Monsters

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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