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• I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Interesting

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• It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Darkness, Shadow, World

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Fall, Eye, Cracks

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• All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

  Roland Barthes

  Agents, World, Determined

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• You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy-angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

  Jeannette Walls

  Teacher, Strong, Teaching

  "Half Broke Horses". Book by Jeannette Walls, 2009.

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• You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  People

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.75, Macmillan

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.43, Wildside Press LLC

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• In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

  Emma Donoghue

  Jobs, House, Stressed

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• How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Regret, Heart, Two

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.426, Random House

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• Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Cat, Animal, Men

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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• If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Moon, Ifs

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.300, Wordsworth Editions

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• I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Trying, Want, Kitten

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there were passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather isn’t as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.

  John Crowley

  Summer, Weather, White

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• I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Guy, Want, Firsts

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.178, Scholastic UK

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• I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

  W. H. Auden

  Discovery, Meaning Of Life, Recognition

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• I don't know, but I think it's going to be good.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Be Good

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.

  Suzanne Collins

  Moon, Asking

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• I felt like - like I don't know what. Like this wasn't real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom. Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire's wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. - Jacob

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Nice, Wife

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• Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Hope, Promise, No Fear

  "My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers" by Sri Chinmoy, (Part 26), 2003.

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• You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

  John Fowles

  Mean, Wish, One Day

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

  Don Marquis

  Beautiful, Fire, Long

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

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• The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

  Lauren Oliver

  Coffee, Sunset, Ice Cream

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, Moon, Darkness

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Girl, Memories, Phrases

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