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• In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it. Most people will tell you that the once upon a time happened in a land far, far away, but it really depends on where you are. The once upon a time may have been just outside your back door. It may have been beneath your very feet. It might not have been in a land at all but deep in the sea's belly or bobbing around on its back.

  N.D. Wilson

  Sea, Land, Feet

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Girl, Expression, Photograph

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

  Robin Wasserman

  Secret, Want, Not Sure

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• I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.

  Robin Wasserman

  Reading, Adventure, Years

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• you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

  Judy Blume

  Pain, Causes, Deny

  Judy Blume (2009). “Summer Sisters: A Novel”, p.347, Delta

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• Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Years, America

  Letter to Dr. William B. Gooch of West Dennis, Massachusetts, in 1851. The Bay State Monthly, 1898.

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• Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Remember Something, Facts, Difficult

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• These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sunshine, Boys, Air

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

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• What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)

  Studs Terkel

  Air, Talking, People

  "Touch and Go: A Memoir". Book By Studs Terkel, 2007.

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• Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

  Alice Hoffman

  Reading, Pages Turning, People

  Alice Hoffman (2005). “Blackbird House”, p.97, Alice Hoffman

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• a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.

  Roland Smith

  Writing, Want, Hook

  Roland Smith (2008). “Peak”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Fate, Thinking, People

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• …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mean, Usual, Normalcy

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Thinking, Order

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• At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love You, Hair, People

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• To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Pain, Thinking, Done

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  There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

  Johnny Cash

  Caught

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• If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

  Arthur Golden

  Grateful, Evening, Ends

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.113, Random House

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• These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

  Alice Sebold

  Lovely, Events, Connections

  The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

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• Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Beautiful, Memories

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1, 1996.

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• So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Giving Up, Trying, Matter

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• There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Stars, Distance, Dark

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• It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

  Georges Simenon

  Long, Decision, Moments

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• Nothing ever happened - Not even this

  Jack Kerouac

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• You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Trying, Here And There, Forget

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.52, Atlântico Press

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