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• She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to be a certain kind of person. He still likes that about her. Her smartness, the fact that she did not inherit that look or that beauty, but it was something searched for and that it will always reflect a present stage of her character.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Queens, Character, Desire

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Weather, People, Taste

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

  Anchee Min

  Prisoner, Command

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• Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had a black cane in his right hand. As he came slowly over to the Brotherhood's table, his patrons parted before him, partly out of respect for his size, partly out of fear from his reputation. Everyone knew who he was and what he was capable of: Rehv was the kind of drug lord who took a personal interest in his livelihood. You crossed him and you turned up diced like something off the Food Channel.

  J.R. Ward

  Hands, Drug, Black

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.69, Penguin

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• And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A secret of the kind that lurks between the two of us has extraordinary power. It burns through the fabric of life like a scorching beam, and yet at the same time it also gives it tensile strength. It forces us to live.

  Sándor Márai

  Fabric Of Life, Two, Giving

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• There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Awkward, Sorrow, Faces

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.769, Macmillan

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• Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

  Dan Brown

  Loneliness, Believe, Reality

  Dan Brown (2013). “Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)”, p.449, Random House

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• For you, someone kind of quiet and mysterious-" "I'm not mysterious," I interrupted. "You are a little. And sometimes people don't know whether to interpret silence as confidence or fear. They're looking at you like you're a bug so maybe you'll feel like you are one.

  Kiera Cass

  People, Silence, Bugs

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.49, HarperCollins

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• It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Choices, Rigor, Sooner Or Later

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.367, A&C Black

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• You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love You, People, Giving

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.96, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Cowardice, Worst, Angry

  Rudyard Kipling (1920). “The Jungle Book”, p.274

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• The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Might, Possibility

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Selected Non-Fictions”, Penguin Group USA

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• When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend.

  Brian Jacques

  Running, Fall, Rain

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall”, p.91, Penguin

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• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Thinking, Want

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

  Mitch Albom

  Together, Lasts, Realizing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• There should be some kind of radar that lets you know when your soul mate is nearby.

  Susane Colasanti

  Soul, Should, Mates

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• That’s the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t make it perfect. I can’t keep it in a bottle, can’t ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try to synthesize and put into pill form, and they’re making tremendous advances every day. They’re winning the war against love. It’s probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if there’s room for love in either of those scenarios.

  Pete Wentz

  War, Winning, Reality

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• Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator . . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.

  Pete Wentz

  Icons, Wish, Batteries

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing

  Andrea Gibson

  Believe, Fall, Heart

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• "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'" "But, I’m not." "How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?"

  Jojo Moyes

  Cutting, Ideas, Done

  "Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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• The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Tyrants, Lazy

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “The Rithmatist”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.

  Kate Bornstein

  Children, Fall, Heart

  Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.185, Beacon Press

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• If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

  Holly Black

  Giving Up, Real, Father

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Art, College, Thinking

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.77, Random House

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