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• I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love, Beautiful, Clever

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Tempt Me At Twilight: Number 3 in series”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge

  Lisa Kleypas

  Moving, Hands, Balance

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.293, Macmillan

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• You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Machines, Chickens

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why

  Jay Asher

  Girlfriend, Strong, Mean

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• We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

  Greg Behrendt

  Truth, Dating, Rejection

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• You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Children, Darkness, Force

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.268, Hachette UK

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• It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.327

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• Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Father, Time Heals, Heal

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Loving You, Lover Unbound

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.484, Penguin

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• Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

  Mario Puzo

  Girl, Thinking, Sight

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.62, Penguin

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• He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sky, Arms, Cried

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• You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

  Queen Latifah

  Strength, Self Respect, Looks

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• You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly.

  Juliet Marillier

  Heart, Men, Wish

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.72, Macmillan

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• You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

  Kate Morton

  Life, Princess, Differences

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Men, Insulted Him

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.67, First Avenue Editions

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• It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Feelings

  Marilynne Robinson (2008). “Home: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Way, Said

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7566, Simon and Schuster

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• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Fabric, Shapes

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

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• I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.

  Alice Munro

  People, World, Strange

  Alice Munro (2015). “Lives of Girls and Women”, p.37, Random House

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• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

  George Orwell

  Names, Secret, Shapes

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.212, Arcturus Publishing

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• La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it.

  Julio Cortazar

  Eye, Cutting, Kissing

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.25, Pantheon

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• One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

  Frances Mayes

  Ignorance, Blue, Giving

  "Frances Mayes travels the globe (sort of), not forgetting about Italy" by Jeanne Cooper, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2006.

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• I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

  Susanna Clarke

  Lying, Magic, Magician

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her." "I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out. "No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Eye, Dancing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.

  James Finn Garner

  Girl, Stress, Riding

  "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times (Little Red Riding Hood - A Politically Correct Fairy Tale)". Book by James Finn Garner, 1994.

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