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• You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

  Emma Forrest

  Love You, Love Is, Problem

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• I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

  Emma Forrest

  Men, Needs, Revelations

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• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Selfish, Mean

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Monsters

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• You're late." Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello. "What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me..." "See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league." "You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Hurt, Jealous

  "Double Crossed". Book by Ally Carter, January 22, 2013.

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• Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

  James Lee Burke

  Morning, Men, Mirrors

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• I am practicing being kind over being right.

  Matthew Quick

  Be Kind

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• Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

  Fred Rogers

  Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.122, Penguin

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• What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep enough into your heart so that it makes your body undergo a kind of a physical shift, and simultaneously the listener's body also undergoes the same kind of physical shift. It's giving birth to that kind of shared state. Probably.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Mean, Giving

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• There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

  Mary Renault

  Unexpected, Shock, Expected

  Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn't you have gone to the bathroom with him?" Isabelle demanded. Jordan looked horrified. "Dudes," he said, "do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.

  Cassandra Clare

  Gone, Jordan, Bathroom

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1547, Simon and Schuster

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• Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Mutation, Fiction

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• I'm not falling anymore. That's what L says, and she's right. I guess you could say I'm flying. We both are. And I'm pretty sure somewhere up there in the real blue sky and carpenter bee greatness, Amma's flying, too. We all are, depending on how you look at it. Flying or falling, it's up to us. Because the sky isn't really made of blue paint, and there aren't just two kinds of people in this world, the stupid and the stuck. We only think there are. Don't waste your time with either-with anything. It's not worth it.

  Kami Garcia

  Real, Stupid, Fall

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• How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

  Haruki Murakami

  Opportunity, Jail, Long

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• The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

  Philip Larkin

  Grief, Years, Tree

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.217, LUMEN

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• There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.

  Tove Jansson

  Summer, Spring, Believe

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

  J. K. Rowling

  White, Brain, Body

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• I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Night, Dragons

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• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Choices, Joy, Ransom

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• Peter leans forward and looks into my eyes. "The serum will go into effect in one minute," he says. "Be brave, Tris." My heart begins to race. Why would Peter tell me to be brave? Why would he offer any kind words at all?

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Eye, Race

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• The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Needs, Want, Life Is

  "Work, Learning And Freedom". Interview with Michael Kasenbacher, www.newleftproject.org. December 24, 2012.

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• You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming bitches are my favorite kind of people." (Risa)

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Evil, Like Her

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• Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." "Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement.

  John Green

  Encouragement, Strong, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

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• One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Betrayal, Mean, Your Side

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.171, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could kiss you!" Chubs cried. "Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Eye, Kissing, Self

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