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• Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fall, Kissing, Fire

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• But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Becoming One, House, Survival

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

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• Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.

  Suzanne Collins

  Real, Enemy, Trying

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• But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

  Bill Bryson

  Stars, Home, Sleep

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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• Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Knives, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Feelings, Ambitious

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• Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Stress, Home

  Stephen King (2016). “Coffey's Hands”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle?” “I think Filch must’ve forgotten to lock the doors,” said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Doors, Track

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• I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, Toasters, Tin

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• The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Foundation, Bombs

  "Space and the Spirit of Man". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1965.

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• The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

  Tove Jansson

  Effort, Doe, Helping

  "Summer Book". Book by Tove Jansson, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Flower, Pygmalion, Fit

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.59, Xist Publishing

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• The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

  Dante Alighieri

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.

  James Patterson

  Moon, Cheese, Cream

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• If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Boys, Leader

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• Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Beautiful, Men, Agony

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus”, p.115, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Dark, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.189, Penguin

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• Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Waiting, Holiness, Holy

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• One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

  Victor Borge

  Father, Home, Fire

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• He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. "Oh thank you so much. That's what every man wants to hear about his name. You might as well call me 'Little Pecker' while you're at it and tell me you would love to have me go shopping with you for feminine hygiene products. Oh and by all means, carry a big, sparkling pink bag with flowers on it and make me hold it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Mean, Men

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• It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

  Lewis Carroll

  Nice, Would Be, Wonderland

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• Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Lying, Book

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his hands, forming their size and shape from the air. "They were yellow, and smallish, and had lots of petals." "Thank you," she said. "They were beautiful.

  Shannon Hale

  Beautiful, Flower, Air

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.187, A&C Black

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• I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch.

  Suzanne Collins

  Team, Believe, Heart

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