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• I wanted more of her, & no matter what happened between us, I already knew I’d never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, & I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn’t be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds

  Nicholas Sparks

  Crazy, Odds, Together

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.

  Bill Bryson

  Kids, Divorce, Childhood

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• I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down

  Dave Pelzer

  Matter, Take Me

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• No matter what happens, always be yourself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Being Yourself, Matter, Always Be Yourself

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

  Anne Rice

  Attitude, Games, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.945, Ballantine Books

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• The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, People, Evil

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

  Aryn Kyle

  Trying, Matter, Fingers

  Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.

  Darren Shan

  Animal, Blood, Alive

  Darren Shan (2011). “The Vampire’s Assistant (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 2)”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Years, Forever, Matter

  "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.newyorker.com. 2004.

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• And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?" Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. "God, Bones...some of that was depraved." "I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the distance between us."I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Morning, Distance, Love You

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• We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

  Richelle Mead

  Leaving, Matter, Abandon

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.488, Penguin

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• If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

  John Grogan

  Thinking, Pups, Calendars

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• You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

  John Steinbeck

  Weed, Matter, Grows

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.189, Penguin

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• It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

  David Gemmell

  Forever, Rising, Matter

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• People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  People, Worry, Judging

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• It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

  Dave Pelzer

  Lying, Dark, Past

  Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.166, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Song, Sleep, Thinking

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.354, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

  Ted Chiang

  Ideas, Brain, Matter

  Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival: Film tie-in”, p.195, Pan Macmillan

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• I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Soul, Might

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• You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

  Shiro Amano

  Reality, Shapes, Matter

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• There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

  Colum McCann

  Thinking, Rocks, Earth

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.156, Random House

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• Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

  Jasper Fforde

  Ideas, East, Matter

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.315, Hachette UK

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• I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Hurt, Eye

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1084, Ballantine Books

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• No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Alive, Want, Matter

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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• No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Effort, Comfort

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.394, Penguin

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