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• I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Night, Hair

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• This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.

  Billy Collins

  Dark, Thinking, Clouds

  Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Cigarette, Found Love, Found

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• I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

  Nick Burd

  Thinking, Drifting Off, Somewhere Else

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• I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Lonely, Loneliness

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• As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Want, Wants To Be Alone, Streets

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it doesn't matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

  John Green

  Real, Hands, Car

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Penguin

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• From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

  Jodi Picoult

  Father, Views, Darkness

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

  Ann Brashares

  Blue, Color, Essentials

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• Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

  Carrie Vaughn

  World, Cold, Problem

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• There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Soulmate, Laughter

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• All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Believe, Hands

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.73, Penguin

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• I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Thinking, Important, Used

  "Fictional character: Gaara". "Naruto: Shippūden", 2007-2017.

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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Nervous

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

  Rick Riordan

  Drinking, Annabeth, Alive

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• I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Islands, Get Back

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

  Kim Harrison

  Compassion, Giving, Lasts

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• But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Brother, Kindness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.151, Macmillan

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• There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Would Be, Cabins

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Queens, Wonder, Shame

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• I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mother, Years, Emptiness

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• And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Boys, Talking

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Enemy, Persons, Loses

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.107, Penguin

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• I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Giving, Mad, Gone

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