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• Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Heart, Wings

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Mean, Joy

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• One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

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• I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

  Groucho Marx

  Nurse, Too Late, Care

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• I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Climbing, Dying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

  Tobias Wolff

  Witty, Depressing, Stories

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• You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

  Christopher Moore

  Gambling, Six, Steps

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• Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Important, Engagement

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.30, Heinemann

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• I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

  Lisa McMann

  Long, Trying, Screw Ups

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Because you told me you don't have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that's very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Feelings, Stills

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.889, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Grief, Grieving, Blue

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.168, Harlequin

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• Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Giving, Trying, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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• You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

  Meg Cabot

  Trying, Quitting, Making Time

  "Teen Idol". Book by Meg Cabot, 2004.

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• I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can drink and fight and feast forever? So maybe this is theirs." "But this is a real place!" "So? That's what they believe. Besides, they're only small. Maybe the universe is a bit crowded and they have to put heavens anywhere there's room? I'm a toad, so you'll appreciate that I'm having to guess a lot here.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Believe, Warrior

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• Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you...God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.

  Tessa Dare

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Three Nights with a Scoundrel”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Blame, Enough

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• It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching...and that's just my house. Imagine what it would be like here.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mistake, Ideas, House

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• The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.

  Janet Evanovich

  Jelly, Way, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Mar 09, 2017

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• I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

  Daniel Keyes

  Feels, Wanted

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• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Space, Unseen, Serene

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• Graystorm: You know Firestar was also very naughty, just like you. Bramblepaw: Really? He seems to be very responsible! Graystorm: Yes. I was there when he was too stubborn to not help RiverClan

  Erin Hunter

  Naughty, Stubborn, Helping

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• Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

  Anne Frank

  Children, Real, Differences

  Anne Frank (2001). “Diary Of A Young Girl”, p.59, Penguin Books India

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• But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hiding, Unfriendly, Picks

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.106, Penguin

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• After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

  Meg Rosoff

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