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• We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Suits, Ifs

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

  Yann Martel

  Real, Emotional, Fiction

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

  Robin Wasserman

  Best Friend, Goodbye, Mistake

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• No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.

  George Carlin

  Trying, Clubs, Matter

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• Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Eye, Nine, Tiny

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2010). “The Search for WondLa”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Glasses, Dust, Numbers

  Maria V. Snyder (2017). “The Glass Series Complete Collection: Storm Glass\Sea Glass\Spy Glass”, p.358, MIRA

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• Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

  Jamie Ford

  Two, Broken, Together

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.248, Allison & Busby

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• I can't believe you jokers fixed it." Hi was picking his way down to the beach. "Believe it, clown. Too much brain power here to fail." Still pumped, Shelton threw another palm Ben's way. "Oh, I'm sure." Hi streched, yawned. "It was something highly technical, I suppose? Something requiring mechanical ability? Nothing as simple as tightening a wire or flippin a switch, right?" Ben reddened. Shelton developed an intrest in his sneakers. Score one for Hi.

  Kathy Reichs

  Beach, Believe, Simple

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.26, Penguin

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• Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

  Wilkie Collins

  Book, Heart, Doe

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

  Leonard Cohen

  Sky, Names, Secret

  Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

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• The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, World, Problem

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• "Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one."

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Amy, Want

  "On the Edge". Book by Ilona Andrews, 2009.

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• Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Talking, Brain, Dying

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Secret, Bears

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.213, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.

  Lori Wilde

  Eye, Marine, Hair

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• The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Trying, Nowhere To Turn

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• Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Tired, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

  Alan Moore

  Home, Reality, Profound

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• Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

  Martin Amis

  Style, Cruelty, Humans

  Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

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• And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Thinking, Elephants

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• She was staring at you.’’ ‘‘What can I say? Irresistible.’’ ‘‘Shane, it’s not funny. I just—you should be careful.’’ ‘‘Always am.’’ Which was an absolute lie. Shane’s eyes fixed on hers, and she felt a burst of heat inside that crept up to burn in her cheeks. He smiled slowly. ‘‘Jealous?’’ ‘‘Maybe.’’ ‘‘No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  Rachel Caine

  Lying, Jealous, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2008). “Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires”, p.15, Penguin

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• I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

  Rachel Caine

  Princess, Eye, Boys

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.635, Penguin

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• God wants us to be stronger than we are--more fixed in our purpose, more certain of our commitments, eventually needing less coddling from Him, showing more willingness to shoulder some of the burden of His heavy load. In short, He wants us to be more like He is and, if you haven't noticed, some of us are not like that yet.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Commitment, Stronger, Purpose

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

  Holly Black

  Regret, Night, Trouble

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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