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• Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dog, Sleep, Simple

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Games, Perfection

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• You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

  Lucy Christopher

  Smile, Faces, Stolen

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Romance, Forever

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.58, Penguin

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• Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

  James A. Owen

  Make Things Happen, Persons, Happens

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• It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

  Jim Butcher

  Jingles, Sandwiches, Submarines

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.88, Penguin

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• But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Summer, Crazy, Merit

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sydney, this is the kind of shirt that says, ‘You’re never getting in here.

  Richelle Mead

  Shirts, Sydney

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• She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself around, bury himself within her, and stay there for all of his days. He hadn’t had a drop to drink in three years, but he was intoxicated now, bubbling with a lightness he’d never thought to feel again.

  Julia Quinn

  Rain, Years, Heaven

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• Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down her tools. “You can’t be here. The dissonance—” He interrupted her panicked words. “I need to ask you something important.” “What could be more important than your life?” She sounded close to tears. “Your life. If you die, I don’t know if I’d stay sane.” A simple truth.

  Nalini Singh

  Simple, Important, Tears

  Nalini Singh (2007). “Caressed By Ice”, p.303, Penguin

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• Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob

  Stephenie Meyer

  Generations, Lines, Dead Ends

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• Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.289, Random House

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• love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

  Tracie Peterson

  Giving Up, Believe, Heart

  Tracie Peterson (2010). “Twilight's Serenade (Song of Alaska Book #3)”, p.159, Bethany House

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• It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.

  Sarah Waters

  Real, Heart, Burden

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• If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

  Roland Barthes

  People, Understanding, Problem

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• Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Safe Haven, Men, Lucky

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• but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Safe Haven, Men

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• Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Interesting, Trying

  "Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Goddess, Grass, Don't Change

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you? Thank you. You are very kind.

  Meg Cabot

  Love You, Men, Appropriate

  Meg Cabot (2015). “The Princess Diaries”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Kings, Men, Sheep

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.191, Hachette UK

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• I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Wrong Number, Numbers

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• Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Thinking, Japan

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. 2002.

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• Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

  Dean Koontz

  Reflection, Devil, Brutality

  Dean Ray Koontz (1991). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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• The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.

  Charlaine Harris

  Couple, Rip, Night

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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