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• I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?" "Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

  Nora Roberts

  Fall, Worry, Moments

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• Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Men, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

  George R. R. Martin

  Past, Dust, May

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.727, Bantam

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• He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.

  Richard Wright

  Blood, Long, Suffering

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.277, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

  André Aciman

  Dream, Night, Stakes

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, War, Convince Us

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• Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Knives, Black

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Nature, Father, Moon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.

  Melina Marchetta

  Looks, Speak, Used

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• I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.

  Joss Whedon

  Clever, Night, Promise

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• Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Crazy, Yummy, Jumping

  "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.

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• Use me. You've done so much for us-" Marissa said. "Not.....for you." V said. "He's alive because of you. So that's everything." V shook his head and turned away from the wrist. "Can't." "I need you. I'm sick from what I do. I need you." Butch whispered. Vishous fixated on Butch. "Only for...you... not me." "For both of us" "All of us," Marissa interjtected. V took a deep breth and bit into the wrist.

  J.R. Ward

  Sick, Needs, Use

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• If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Different, World, Silent

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

  Kate Morton

  Apologizing, Convince, Ifs

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know." It took me a second to process that, because he'd said it so casually. Like he was talking about the weather or what time it was. Only Pritkin didn't say things like that. His idea of a compliment was a nod and to tell me to do whatever it was I'd just done over again. Like that was usually possible. But that had sounded suspiciously like a compliment to me.

  Karen Chance

  Talking, Weather, Ideas

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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• He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

  James Dashner

  Rain, Fall, Storm

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials”, p.104, Chicken House

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• I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn‟t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in return. But of course, this was easier said than done.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hands, Return, Easier

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.249, Penguin

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• Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?" "I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?" "I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mind, Wish, Mafia

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• It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.

  Marguerite Duras

  Wrinkles, Skins, Substance

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.4, Pantheon

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• ...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

  Henry Jenkins

  Fans, Culture, Fiction

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• She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.

  Jenny Downham

  School, Boys, Dope

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• It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

  John Green

  Should Have, Twenties, Four

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.97, Penguin

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• "I shouldn't have done that," I said.
  That was when I kissed him again.
  May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, May

  "All These Things I've Done". Book by Gabrielle Zevin, 2012.

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• Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.

  Aravind Adiga

  Jobs, Honesty, Fate

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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