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• All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Limits, Knows

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• I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

  John Green

  Real, Thinking, Trying

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.141, A&C Black

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• I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sibling, Eye, Dark

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.

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• Look, I'm not ready for you," Min said. "I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you which would be fine if I didn't fall in love with you but there that is, just standing there, and you know it, you know you've got me.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Love You

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• Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

  Tom Robbins

  Dirty, Water, Harm

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.113, Bantam

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• Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Goodbye, Dream, Long

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “The God Abandons Anthony”

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• I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?

  Ellen Schreiber

  Kissing, Punishment, Vampire

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• Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared." This was the reward for living in the Netherlands. As a child you get to hear this story, and as an adult you get to turn around and repeat it.

  David Sedaris

  Children, Men, Eight

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• Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Love, Father, Doors

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• And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be.

  D. J. MacHale

  Adventure, Challenges, Way

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.2451, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Years, Class, Graduates

  Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Fear, Issues

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• Be prepared,' that's my motto." He smiled smugly at me. "That, and 'Sleep whenever possible.' Oh, and 'If you don't notice it's gone, what's the harm in me taking it?

  Kiersten White

  Sleep, Gone, Motto

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• What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Hate, Giving, World

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• I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

  André Aciman

  Agency, Needs, Pay

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

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• The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.

  Rachel Vincent

  Disappointment, Want, Problem

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.48, Harlequin

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• Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

  Helen Hollick

  Lying, Two, People

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• ...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

  Christopher Golden

  Boys, Vampire, Bags

  Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder (2012). “Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2: Halloween Rain; Bad Bargain; AfterImage”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

  W. H. Auden

  Pay The Price, People, Grumbling

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Crush, Letting Go, Butterfly

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• Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Mother, Gentleman

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• I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

  Derek Landy

  War, Chaos, Crash

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.115, HarperCollins UK

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• You must be prepared to work always without applause.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Work, Novelists

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1053, Simon and Schuster

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• It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

  Robert Frost

  Dark, Night, Age

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the Kitchen Bridget was still singing one of her awful sad songs; the lyrics drifted in through the door: "Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, 'Saw ye my father? Or ye my mother? Or saw ye my brother John? Or saw ye the lad that I love best, And his name it is Sweet William?" I may murder her, Tessa thought. Let her make a song about that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Song

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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