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• Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Horse, Kneeling, Tents

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• ‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rooms, Sticks, Stranger

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• You really shouldn’t do that to people," I criticized. "It’s hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that – she’s probably hyperventilating in the kitchen right now." He seemed confused. "Oh come on," I said dubiously. "You have to know the effect you have on people." He tilted his head to one side, and his eyes were curious. "I dazzle people?" "You haven’t noticed? Do you think everybody gets their way so easily?" He ignored my questions. "Do I dazzle you?" "Frequently," I admitted.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Confused, Eye, Thinking

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• This was why I was here. This was why I would take whatever reception waited for me when I got back. Because, underneath all the anger and the sarcasm, Jacob was in pain. Right now, it was very clear in his eyes. I didn't know how to help him, but I knew I had to try. It was more than that I owed him. It was because his pain hurt me, too. Jacob had become a part of me, and there was no changing that now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

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• I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

  Rob Thomas

  Decision, Diaries, Materials

  Rob Thomas (2013). “Rats Saw God”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

  Lauren Kate

  Beautiful, Faith, Struggle

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.589, Delacorte Press

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• Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Life, Running, Never Let Me Go

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Sep 24, 2016

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• Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly

  Mary Oliver

  Able, Wanted, Know How

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

  Ralph Ellison

  Gun, Cop, Poet

  Ralph Ellison (1994). “Invisible man”, Random House Inc

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• This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Years, Age

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• You don't know this yet. But you are Mine - Wrath

  J.R. Ward

  Wrath, Mines

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• Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Years, Ice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.

  Steven Brust

  Powerful, Eye, Sorcery

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• There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.

  Steven Brust

  Thinking, Brain, Special

  Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.243, Macmillan

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• And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be "See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't." I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mean, Thinking, Waiting

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

  Margaret Haddix

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster

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• and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Car, Ribbons

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• I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am

  Ernest Holmes

  Knowing, Support, Way

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• That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Too Much, Results, Should

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.290, 谷月社

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• If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Regret, Years, Mind

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• Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moments, Found, Peace Is Every Step

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• Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth?

  Katie MacAlister

  Stupid, Kissing, Vampire

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• I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Who I Am, Passionate

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.165, Anchor

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• Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

  Joe Haldeman

  Book, Writing, Adultery

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• Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.

  Lauren Kate

  Know How

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.183, Delacorte Press

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