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• …Faith forged in the furnace of trials and tears is marked by trust and testimony. Only God can count the sacrifice; only God can measure the sorrow; only God can know the hearts of those who serve Him.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Sacrifice, Sorrow

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• What are you doing back at the bakery?” I asked [Diesel]. “Did you know Wulf was here?” “No. I knew food was here.

  Janet Evanovich

  Bakeries, Diesel, Did You Know

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• And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn’t even know he was one?

  Cassandra Clare

  Gratitude, Hate, Valentine

  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.1233, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

  Libba Bray

  Done, Half, Littles

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.134, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Gonzo narrows his eyes. 'How often do you clean that thing?' 'Every night,' the waitress answers. Her smile is strained. 'That's it? Do you know how long it takes for Listeria to grow under those hot lamps, even with ice?' Here we go. 'It can happen in just five hours. Five hours and you've got the salad bar of death!' The waitress looks confused. 'From Listerine?

  Libba Bray

  Confused, Eye, Night

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.140, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Responsibility, Men

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• Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

  Cassandra Clare

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• Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

  Christopher Pike

  Mean, Wealth, Immortality

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• Raven: So Alexander, now we know what we do all day. What do you do? Alexander: I spend it thinking about you.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Thinking About You, Ravens, Alexander Sterling

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• I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.

  Katie MacAlister

  Christian, Running, Grief

  Katie MacAlister (2008). “Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Space, Want, Share

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Technology, Magic

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• The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Night, Tears, Care

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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• Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Thinking, Advice

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• He was going to take a dive into this lake. He just didn’t know it. Cerise rose, finding footing in the soft mud. The water came up to just below her breasts and her wet shirt stuck to her body. William’s gaze snagged on her chest. Yep, keep looking, Lord Bill. Keeeeeep looking.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lakes, Water, Rose

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.81, Penguin

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• It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

  Neil Gaiman

  Let It Go, Willing, Hard

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.

  Glenn Beck

  Storm, Understood

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

  Meg Cabot

  Good Night, Mean, Past

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• Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.

  Ernst Junger

  Believe, Opposites, Needs

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• It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Feel Good, Feels, Hard

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other?...In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love.

  Sara Zarr

  Color, People, Together

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• I don’t want to love him—this would be so much simpler if I didn’t. But I do. He’s funny, and passionate, and strong, and he believes in me more than I even believe in myself. When he looks at me, I feel like I could take on the whole world and come out standing tall. I like myself better when I’m with him, because of how he sees me. He makes me feel beautiful and powerful, like I’m the most important thing in the world, and I don’t know how to walk away from that. I don’t know how to walk away from him.

  Rachel Vincent

  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.60, MIRA

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• Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Believe, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.236, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Stars, Pain, Eye

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1971). “The white guard”

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