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• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Zenith, Way

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• Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

  J. D. Salinger

  Holy Ground, Pieces, Littles

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Morning, Doors, Next Day

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.260, e-artnow

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• Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.

  James Patterson

  Mirrors, Hair, Practice

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• I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Reflection, Space

  Don DeLillo (2003). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

  Patricia Briggs

  Heart, Mean, Gravestone

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• Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

  Tom Stoppard

  Song, Real, Mean

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Children, Sleep

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.165, A&C Black

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• ... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

  John Barnes

  Teacher, Crazy, Kids

  John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.15, Penguin

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• Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Falling In Love, Art, Book

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• She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Pain

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

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• I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Eye, Hair

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• In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

  David Levithan

  Mom, Voting, Election

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!

  J. K. Rowling

  Doe, Balls, Lasts

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• Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, America, Suffering

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.1145, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Carrots, Drag

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• Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.

  Earl Nightingale

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2012). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

  James Clavell

  Karma, Strong, Hate

  JAMES CLAVELL (1975). “SHOGUN”

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• Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

  Jerome Groopman

  Doubt, Moments, Chain Reactions

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• One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

  Helen Keller

  Self Discipline, Painful, Easier

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.76, 谷月社

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• And stop doing that,” he said. “Backing away, giving me that look.” Like you’re scaring me? Maybe you are.” He stepped back so fast he wobbled and caught himself, and the look on his face—It vanished in a second, the scowl returning. I’d never hurt you, Chloe. You should know—” He stopped. Paused. Then wheeled and started walking away. “Next time? Handle it yourself. I’m done taking care of you.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hurt, Walking Away, Giving

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• It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Men, Alive

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.63, Hamilton Books

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• So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Thinking, Cells

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Years, Envy

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• What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Forgotten, Moments

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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