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• There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Kissing, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.234, e-artnow

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• The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)

  Stephen King

  Dog, Rain, Sunshine

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• Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

  Amy Bloom

  Men, Should

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.29, Vintage

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• You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtships. They want to know immediately.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Song, Princess

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• The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

  Roberto Bolano

  Men, Air, People

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• Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Children, Mistake

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Night, Eggs

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 1999.

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• But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.

  Anna Gavalda

  Rain, Moving, Home

  Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.40, Penguin

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• I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Inspiring, Writing, Thinking

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• Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

  David Clement-Davies

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

  David Clement-Davies

  Animal, Men, Cruelty

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• I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

  Brad Pitt

  Atheist, Thinking, Atheism

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• You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

  Sara Shepard

  Liars, Misery, Eternal

  "Pretty Little Liars". www.imdb.com. 2010–2017.

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• Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

  Nora Roberts

  Fearless, Young, Miraculous

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.108, Penguin

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• I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Long, Enough, Term

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “A Place Called Here”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

  John Fowles

  Effort, Green, Cynicism

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

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• but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid

  Michael Grant

  Stars, Sky, Shooting

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• A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Couple, Needs, Stranger

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.368, St. Martin's Press

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• O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Giving, Grace

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• Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

  Boris Pasternak

  Confused, Love You, Jealous

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• I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.

  Nelson DeMille

  Guy, Definitions, Crosswords

  Nelson DeMille (2008). “Wild Fire: Number 4 in series”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

  Richard Peck

  Grandma, Cutting, Necks

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”

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• All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

  William Carlos Williams

  Heart, Helen

  William Carlos Williams (1994). “Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• It hurts more than anything in the world because even though it might not be the case, it feels like you've chosen your child over me. 'I haven't there is no choice. She's part of me. You're part of me too. It's like...I don't know...asking me to pick between my heart and my lungs.' 'I know, but the thing is, you are my heart and my lungs. You're everything to me. And what hurts is that I know i used to be everything to you.

  Mike Gayle

  Hurt, Children, Heart

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• Finally, Everybody Hates Chris is on, isn't that right Alice?? Plus, I dont know why they say to put author name for a stinkin' quote.

  Erin Hunter

  Hate, Names, Plus

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