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• You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

  Rachel Caine

  Pedestrians, Mobile, Eve Rosser

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.788, Penguin

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• Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

  David Foster Wallace

  Life, Differences, People

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything like Yelena, my deepest sympathies," Valek teased. "Hey!" Leif laughed and the tense moment dissipated. Valek handed Leif his machete. "Do you know how to use it?" "Of course. I chopped Yelena's bow into firewood," Leif joked.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mother, Ideas, Silence

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Past, Gestures, Persons

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Rich in Love”, p.97, Penguin

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• (Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.

  Barry Lyga

  Dad, Men, Rocks

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb, he towers above other men and, though he does not yet know the power of his stature, he is aware that smaller men become uneasy near him. He is handsomely knit in all; fair to look upon.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Eye, Men, Hair

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• ...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

  A. S. Byatt

  Opposites, Needs, Horror

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Sep 24, 2016

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• I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Inspirational, Retirement, Soldier

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• A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Thinking, Roots, Community

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• And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace." "The Clave can screw itself." "Jace," Maryse said, sounding genuinely parental for a change. "Language." "The Clave wants a lot of things," Jace amended. "It shouldn't necessarily get them all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Language, Jace

  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.888, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually," Clary said, "I think he stayed because of me." Jace's glaze flicked up to hers with a flash of gold. "Because of you? Hoping for another hot date, was he?" Clary felt herself flush. "No. And our date wasn't hot. In fact, it wasn't even a date. Anyway, that's not the point. When he came into the Hall, he kept trying to get me to go outside with him so we could talk. He wanted something from me. I just don't know what." "Or maybe he just wanted you," Jace said. Seeing Clary's expression, he added, "Not that way. I mean maybe he wanted to bring you to Valentine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Mean, Thinking

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• But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Balance, Needs

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• Paul Gauguin asked, "Whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later!.. Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Rooms, Bigs

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Like You, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

  Janette Rallison

  Love You, People, Decision

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• How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Clubs, About Yourself

  "Fight Club". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyes water.

  Harlan Ellison

  Running, Jobs, Responsibility

  "Shatterday: Stories". Book by Harlan Ellison, April 1, 2014.

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• Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

  John Irving

  Falling In Love, Liars, Ordinary

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• But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Land, Care

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.437, Delphi Classics

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• Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Kissing, Two

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

  John Marsden

  Thinking, Bored, Alive

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Knowing, Cradle

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.

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• Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Art, Action

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.104

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• There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

  Elie Wiesel

  Dust, Sick, Would Be

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.17, Schocken

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• You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Laughing, Missing

  Broadway Danny Rose, www.imdb.com. 1984.

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