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• Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis) You know better. You’ve tutored me too well on how vicious women are. On how much love ruins and destroys. Thank you for the lesson, Artemis. It was just what I needed. And I assure you, it’s one I’ll never forget. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Lessons, Ruins

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• A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

  P. C. Cast

  Believe, Fire, Air

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Prayer, Suffering, Progress

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• It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Acts Of Courage, Spite, Stills

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• Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Cutting, Men

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• Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.

  Frances Mayes

  Morning, Memories, Home

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• The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

  James Patterson

  Moving On, Nice, Laughing

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.

  Flann O'Brien

  Eye, Suffering, Looks

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Caring, Self

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• (At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.) Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it’s a bat cave. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Spring, Doors, Hands

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• It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

  Walter Benjamin

  Tasks, Language, Creation

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs.

  John Flanagan

  Believe, Grandmother, Hands

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• Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

  Matt Groening

  Worst, Robotics

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• For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.

  Ai Yazawa

  Dream, Pain, Love Is

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• You put on such a brave front. But I know if I took another step toward you, you'd wet your pants." "With your blood." I brandished my knife. But I couldn't keep a straight face; the boast sounded ridiculous even to my own ears. I snickered. She laughed. The release of tension made me giddy, and soon I was laughing and crying.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Blood, Knives, Laughing

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• A shrieking rise of power rushed into my pathways, rocking me against the wall. Ido's body slammed into mine. He was not going to let go. Not now. The Rat Dragon howled, his heavy blue force driven back by the onslaught of sinuous gold. Raw,rejoicing energy flooded my seven centers of power; opening,pushing, seeking. And behind it all, a presence exulting in the joy of release and reunion. I looked up and finally my mind-sight was clear. I could see the Mirror Dragon. My Dragon.

  Alison Goodman

  Letting Go, Wall, Mirrors

  Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.310, Penguin

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• The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

  Joyce Meyer

  Domestic Violence, Secret, Prison

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• The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Life, Pain, Believe

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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• I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

  Jay-Z

  Exercise, Thinking, Way

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• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teacher, Powerful, People

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

  Aron Ralston

  Wall, Rip, Fall

  Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Children, Grandmother, Secret

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam

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• Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.

  William P. Young

  Real, People, Forgiving

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• Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

  Patrick Ness

  Integrity, Responsibility, Choices

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