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• Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Promise, Enemy, Horror

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.32, Penguin Group

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• At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Rain, School, Fire

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

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• He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

  Karl Marlantes

  Caring, Men, Evil

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

  Anais Nin

  Destiny, Mirrors, Childhood

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• I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

  Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com

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• This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.

  Maureen Johnson

  School, Aunt, People

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• We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hate, Drinking, Fighting

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• I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Prayer, Gone, Want

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Demand, Higher, Conform

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• She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

  Carson McCullers

  Light, Sky, Listening

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Member of the Wedding”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

  Garth Stein

  Mistake, Desire, Shunning

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• [I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made of lead. Like I can't even think about starting to care about anything. Like I either wish that they were all dead, or I was, because I can't stand the pull of all that history between us. That's before I even pick up the phone. I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tired, Thinking, Phones

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• does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but i hear it's quite good for humans."***

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Leather Pants, Devil

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• As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright And the tangled weeds Bearing a rainbow gem On each of their seeds; So has your love, my lover, Fresh as the dawn, Made me a shining road To travel on, Set every common sight Of tree or stone Delicately alight For me alone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Weed, Stars, Sight

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Thinking, Rooms, Kind

  Cornell Woolrich (1965). “The Dark Side of Love: Tales of Love and Death”

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• But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

  John Green

  Powerful, Doctors, Orange Juice

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

  John Green

  Hurt, Grandma, Cookies

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Block, Animal, Meat Industry

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• But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Opening Up, Hands

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sunset, One Day, Four

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.35, eKitap Projesi

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• I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim.

  Gail Carriger

  Hands, Swim, Fishes

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• The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

  Luke Davies

  Bitterness, Resentment, Wonder

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.38, Penguin

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• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.

  T. H. White

  Daughter, Queens, Clever

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.248, Penguin

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• It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.

  Kate Morton

  Sibling, Keys, Games

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Library, Caves, Wanted

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