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• He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.

  Christine Feehan

  Children, Taken, Home

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.152, Penguin

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• The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

  Frank Delaney

  Soul, Doe, May

  Frank Delaney (2009). “Shannon: A Novel of Ireland”, p.122, Random House

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• What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's human!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Teeth, Littles

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• V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago." She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.

  J.R. Ward

  Tattoo, Lying, Fighting

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• The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Names, Profound

  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "The Naming of Cats" l. 25 (1939)

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• The violin - that most human of all instruments.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Violin, Instruments

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.510, e-artnow

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• They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Differences, People, Needs

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• Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

  John Green

  People, Feelings, Bloodlust

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• It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

  Neal Shusterman

  Lonely, Spirit, Moments

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Men, Justice

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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• The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

  Northrop Frye

  Jobs, Two, Mind

  Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”

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• We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” “Are you saying you are monsters?” “I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, War, Hero

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3314, Bantam

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• I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Feel Better, Names, Scientist

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 98), 1963.

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• Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, Ordinary, Pressure

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

  Megan McCafferty

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• Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Land, Safety, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2008). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.105, Zondervan

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• She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Betrayal, Kindness

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.

  Alice Hoffman

  Loyalty, Dream, Dog

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• Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

  John Christopher

  Choices, Mind, Analysis

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• Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Divergent, Poison

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2011.

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• No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

  Larissa Ione

  Hate, Mouths, Invention

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• violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Rights

  Louis L'Amour (2011). “The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)”, p.153, Bantam

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• Human nature is the same in all professions.

  Laurence Sterne

  Human Nature, Profession

  Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.167

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• The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

  Margaret Atwood

  Betrayal, Evil, Doubt

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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