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• Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Lying, Light, Order

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• There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.

  Greg Behrendt

  Insecure, Men, People

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall into infatuation. And if you manage to make a connection and attach to each other during infatuation, you'll move into mature, unconditional love.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Pain, Moving, Fall

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• Your woman wears underwear out in public,” Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that little miracle?” “Only the Deity knows.

  Gena Showalter

  Nice, Miracle, Underwear

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.104, HQN Books

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• Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the first tunnel when I realize what was so remarkable about that exchange. Peeta sounded like his old self, the one who could always think of the right thing to say when nobody else could... I glance back at him as he trudges along under his guards, Gale and Jackson, his eyes fixed on the ground, his shoulders hunched forward. So dispirited. But for a moment, he was really here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Tunnels

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• Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.

  Nalini Singh

  Two, People, Broken

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.204, Penguin

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• Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  People, Improvement

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• When the guy turned around, Amy began stuttering. Silently. It was a feat only Amy could manage, and only Dan could notice. And it only happened in front of boys who looked like this one. He had brown hair and caramel-colored eyes, like Dan's friend Nick Santos, who made all the sixth-grade girls turn into blithering idiots when he looked their way--in fact, would even say Watch, lean make them turn into blithering idiots, and then he'd do it. Only older. "He. Is. Hot," Nellie said under her breath. "You too?" Dan hissed.

  Peter Lerangis

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• I rushed us out of your parents' house because I didn't think I could manage two hours at the dinner table with everyone focused on Joe Loosey's joystick sitting in the refrigerator next to the applesauce.

  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Two, House

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• So, tell me this: suppose you manage to kidnap her again and take her off to the mall. While you're there a Strigoi comes at you. What will you do? Depends on what store we're in.

  Richelle Mead

  Stores, Malls, Depends

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.53, Penguin

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• When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Writing, Men

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• How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

  Suzanne Collins

  Knowing, Way, Chance

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

  Emily Giffin

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.1157, St. Martin's Press

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• Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Holiday, Kyoto

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• What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

  Norton Juster

  Infinity, Phantom Tollbooth, Poor

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.160, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Real, Thinking

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• It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Dark, Hands

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• So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Long, Expected, Knows

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

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• Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?” “The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll.” Sam smirked. “You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.

  Libba Bray

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

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• In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Kings, Queens

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1279, Penguin UK

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• Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Children, Father, Said

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.182, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.

  Mother Teresa

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

  Ken Kesey

  Mirrors, Self, Looks

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.82, Hamilton Books

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• Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.

  Eoin Colfer

  Firsts, Bodyguard, Puberty

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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