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• The others can’t see me,” said the little ghost. “I know,” I said. “My name’s Gwyneth. What’s yours?” “Dr. White to you,” said Dr. White. “I’m Robert,” said the ghost. “That’s a very nice name,” I said. “Thank you,” said Dr. White. “I’ll return the compliment by saying you have very nice veins.

  Kerstin Gier

  Nice, Names, White

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.150, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

  Harlan Coben

  Ache

  "Six Years". Book by Harlan Coben, books.google.ru. April 25, 2013.

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• Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

  F. Sionil José

  Loss, Giving, Causes

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• When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Lust, Desire, Lips

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• The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

  Anderson Cooper

  Travel, Fall, World

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• Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

  Richard Carlson

  Perspective, Trying, Form

  Richard Carlson (1999). “A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers”, Hyperion

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• One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

  Paul Bowles

  Unique, Details, Would Be

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• The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Independent, Apology

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• One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.

  Lucy Christopher

  Rain, Cells, One Day

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

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• We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return their affection, at least we can offer a rose.

  Bisco Hatori

  Rose, Affection, Finest

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• Years later Magnus would return to London and Camille Belcourt's side, and find it not all that he had dreamed. Years later another desperate Herondale boy with blue, blue eyes would come to his door, shaking with the cold of the rain and his own wretchedness, and this one Magnus would be able to help.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Eye, Boys

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Something once lost will never return

  Yana Toboso

  Lost

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• And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Choices, Decision, Crossroads

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.572, Macmillan

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• I don’t know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something.

  Veronica Roth

  Two, Want Something, People

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• And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, June, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.

  Ruskin Bond

  Book, Special People, Joy

  Ruskin Bond (2014). “Uncles, Aunts and Elephants: A Ruskin Bond Treasury”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• To love is to risk not being loved in return.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Love Is, Deep Love

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Spring, Love You

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Men, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Eye, One Day

  George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Should, Endeavor

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Believe, Causes

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.128, Commodius Vicus

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• I loved you, and my love had no return,
  And therefore my true love has been my death.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, I Loved You, My True Love

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Music, Song, Powerful

  "Essays critical and clinical" by Gilles Deleuze, (p. 104), 1993.

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