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• She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

  James Patterson

  Flirting, Together, Teeth

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.149, Random House

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• When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, Sunset, Thinking

  Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner”, p.253, A&C Black

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• Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Heart, Reason

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

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• I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Wife, Charm

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.

  Catherine Fisher

  Beautiful, Night, Men

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.180, Penguin

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• Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

  Henry Rollins

  Lonely, Hurt, Party

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.33, Villard

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• All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.

  John Green

  Book, Knowing, People

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Battle, Warfare

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.308, Tor Science Fiction

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• He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Play, Serious, Bitter

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1191, Simon and Schuster

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• Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.

  Janet Fitch

  Taught, Apologizing

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• Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Years, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Wise, Ignorance, Dark

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• I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there.

  Jennifer Egan

  Guessing, Fantasy, Proust

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• I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode... pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.

  Karen Chance

  Real, Past, Differences

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.681, Penguin

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• India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Who I Am, Mind, Identity

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.39, Penguin Books India

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• The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

  Shashi Tharoor

  People, Revolutionary, Enough

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Cake, House, Cottages

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• Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Cutting, Self, Ignorant

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2014). “Aurora Floyd”, p.298, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Riley. How bad has it been?" "Just fabulous. The demonic kitten really made my night.

  Jana Oliver

  Night, Fabulous, Kitten

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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• Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Moving, Home, Heart

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• The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.

  Suzanne Collins

  Real, Problem, Katniss And Peeta

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.270, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

  Raegan Butcher

  Choices, Toilets

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• She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.

  Robin McKinley

  Strong, Growing Up, Boys

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

  Jay-Z

  Kings, People, Waiting

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• Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.

  Cassandra Clare

  Daddy, Vampire, Facts Of Life

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1392, Simon and Schuster

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