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• he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

  Gayle Forman

  New Year, Years, Promise

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• Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Promise, Looks, Quiet

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• You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

  David Letterman

  Evil, Promise, Use

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• Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.

  A. A. Milne

  Remember You, Remembers You, Promise

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• Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Inspiration, Promise

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.229, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

  Ray Bradbury

  Promise, Balance, Twenties

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• Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.” “You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw onto life, and do not let go. Promise me you will live for me, and I promise you, when you’re done, I will be waiting for you.” She is sobbing. “Whenever you’re done, Alexander, I will be here, waiting for you.

  Paullina Simons

  Letting Go, Waiting, Soldier

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• I search my brain for the truth. “I want it more than anything, just as long as you promise me one thing.” “And what’s that?” “That if at any time it gets to be too much for you, you’ll leave me—walk away and get out.” “That will never happen,” he guarantees me. “You need to give me some credit. You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Heart, Long, Giving

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• Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister, the freaking MAILMAN--I don't need it from you, too. All I ask is that you promise me one thing.' 'What?' 'Just water the plants while I'm gone, all right?' 'You don't have plants, Tad.' 'I know. I just always wanted to say that.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mom, Dad, Emotional

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• Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

  Rachel Caine

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Doubt

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.234, Allison & Busby

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• You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Promise, Enough, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would be wrong. Promise me." "Fine. I promise I won't kill him." He said it too easily. My eyes narrowed. "Promise me right here and now that you will also never cripple, maim, dismember, blind, torture, bleed, or otherwise inflict any injury to Danny Milton. Or otherwise stand by while someone else does as you watch." "Blimey, that's not fair!" he protested

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Eye, Feelings

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• Think of me, think of me fondly When we've said goodbye. Remember me once in a while Please promise me, you'll try. Recall those days, look back on all those times, Think of those things we'll never do. There will never be a day When I won't think of you. Can it be? Can it be Christine? Long ago, it seems so long ago, How young and innocent we were. She may not remember me But I remember her.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Goodbye, Thinking, Long Ago

  "The Phantom of the Opera". Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, 1986.

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• Shane it came back to her in a dizzy rush how he'd stopped her on the way into this place, in the faint dawn of light 'i wnt you to promise me one thing. promise me you'll marry me. Not now. Someday.

  Rachel Caine

  Light, Promise, Dawn

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.12, Allison & Busby

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• She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. “What if it means something?” She asks. “What if it does?” “Promise me it won’t mean anything.” I lean my head back on the couch. “It won’t mean anythin’.” Aren’t I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules? “And no tongue,” she adds. “Mi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee there’s gonna be tongue.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mean, Commitment, Eye

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• Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Eye, Cutting

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• And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.

  Sharon Shinn

  Lying, Heart, Sunshine

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• I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark" ... In some astonishment I asked him, "A bulwark-against what?" To which he replied, "Against the black tide of mud"-and here he hesitated for a moment, then added of occultism.

  Carl Jung

  Science, Promise, Black

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.

  Bram Stoker

  Gratitude, Believe, Sunshine

  Bram Stoker (1987). “Dracula: World Classics”, p.242, World Classic

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• I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Ocean, Fighting

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Promise, Path

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• If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Mother, Real, Thinking

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• You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Promise, Want, Nonsense

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• It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.

  Nancy Werlin

  Running, Baby, Thinking

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• You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

  Graham Greene

  Mean, Promise, Victory

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

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