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• Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Hands, Messages

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

  Gayle Forman

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.87, Penguin

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• You're right. Everyone in this room with a pulse is starting to smell really good. Okay. Back in the box, better safe than sorry.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sorry, Smell, Safe

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

  Shel Silverstein

  Like You, I Don't Like You

  Shel Silverstein, “Don't Change On My Account”

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• ...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Children, Thinking

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• Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Needs

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.110, Penguin

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• Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee—and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela—Raphael’s as well. Then she put down the carafe.

  Nalini Singh

  Coffee, Ideas, Waiting

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.154, Penguin

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• Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that's all for the heart." "So what's vodka for?" "For the soul. If it's hurting real bad

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Hurt, Real, Heart

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• Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?

  John Flanagan

  Hands, Two, Feet

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• You can’t have him, okay,” she said from behind the wire barrier. “Mm-hmm,” I whispered. “This is certainly a beautiful neighborhood.” “Yeah, I guess.” “I will scratch those eyes out of your ugly head.

  Darynda Jones

  Beautiful, Eye, Wire

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.34, Macmillan

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• The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

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• ...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.

  Neal Shusterman

  Country, Tired, Giving

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• Fine, just don’t eat my mom, okay? She’s had a bad enough life without becoming the Bride of Dracula.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Becoming, Enough

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• Yeah, but I don’t want to be in pain, and I definitely don’t want to suffer.” – Nick “Well…The only way to avoid them is to die.” – Death “Okay, let’s change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Suffering, Looks

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• I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Giving, Silence

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• Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his temper with everyone around him who isn’t in childbirth. And he has yet to start shooting lighting bolts at people. Poor Damien still has a burn scar.” – Kat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Dad, Grandma

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.400, St. Martin's Press

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• You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to become another person altogether to be able to take a hard look. Good people protect people they love, even if that means pretending that everything is okay.

  Ron McLarty

  Mean, Eye, People

  Ron McLarty (2005). “The Memory of Running”, p.31, Penguin

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• Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Kissing, Smell

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• I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Want, Damage

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.153, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm losing myself trying to compete With everyone else instead of just being me Don't know where to turn I've been stuck in this routine I need to change my ways Instead of always being weak I don't wanna be afraid I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today And know that I'm okay 'Cause everyone's perfect in unusual ways You see, I just wanna believe in me

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Believe, Perfect

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• You’ll be all right. You’re strong. I know you’ll be okay because I like you and you can’t like someone who doesn’t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I don’t like because they hate themselves so much they won’t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I’ll miss you. And I know you’ll be okay.

  Sarah Kane

  I Like You, Strong, Hate

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• Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald's trust and pass us information about Celeste's plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. "Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Pie, Want, Information

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• Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.

  Michelle Richmond

  People, Facts, Feels

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• Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thinking, Feelings, Shows

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• And okay, fine. If you have to kiss her, you have to kiss her. And believe me, I do not envy you. That's taking one for the team a little far. I mean, I think I'd rather endure the stabbing myself instead of having to kiss her.

  Gena Showalter

  Team, Believe, Mean

  Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe, Jessica Andersen, Nalini Singh (2013). “Royal House of Shadows Box Set: Lord of the Vampires\Lord of Rage\Lord of the Wolfyn\Lord of the Abyss”, p.192, Harlequin

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