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• Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Cutting, Trying, Sometimes

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.153, Macmillan

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• I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

  Rachel Caine

  Arguing, Surprise, Claire

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.28, Allison & Busby

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• I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Parent, Wish, Going Away

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Alchemist, Treasure

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• To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sibling, Latin, Thinking

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• We write to make sense of it all.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing

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• Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

  Wendell Berry

  Effort, Doe, Charity

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• Very little in this world makes sense.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  World, Littles, This World

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series”, p.161, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Sorry doesn’t mean anything! Not when you’re still with him. It’s not just that you cheated—it’s that he’s still here, and you’re still with him. It just goes on and on, and it hurts every single time I see you with him. I hate it that he makes you smile, and that there’s nothing I can do to stop this. I can’t think straight, and everything hurts, and nothing makes sense anymore. You’re shredding my heart with one hand and stroking his ego with the other. And it’s killing me, Faythe. You’re killing me. And it’s only going to get worse, now that everyone knows.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hurt, Sorry, Hate

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• There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

  Tupac Shakur

  Life, Mean, Kids

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• Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alive, Might, Lasts

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• The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

  Frank Miller

  World, Force

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• Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

  Eileen Wilks

  Dog, Cat, Numbers

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.64, Penguin

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• . . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

  John Boyne

  Trying, Way, Sides

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• I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Drifting Off, Dust

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.259, Hachette UK

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• Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

  Tamora Pierce

  Hate, Cups, Lord

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.356, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

  Jon Krakauer

  Couple, Mistake, Thinking

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.

  Mary Balogh

  Worthy

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• Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely

  Paul Auster

  Men, Solitude, Matter

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• Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

  Susan Mallery

  Feelings, Seems

  Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, Christina Skye (2011). “The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\Coming Unraveled\Return to Summer Island”, p.306, MIRA

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• You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "Touch...

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Lakes, Cities

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• I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

  John Cheever

  Writing, Blake

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• The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

  Russell Hoban

  Matter, Things That Matter

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.148, A&C Black

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• But really, the term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.

  Meg Cabot

  Mistake, Dwelling, Issues

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

  Vaclav Havel

  Helping Others, People, Needs

  "The Language of Hatred, Increasingly Normalized by Trump" by Michael Gerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 2, 2017.

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