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• She doesn’t know,” Cate said. “Kellen is a secret. I didn’t think my mother would approve.” “Why wouldn’t your mother approve?” Pugg asked. “It’s my job,” Kellen said. “I kill people. It pays well, but it’s not universally socially acceptable.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Jobs, Thinking

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• I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Space, Identity

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind." I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.

  Sarah Dessen

  Blow, Mind, Waffles

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.

  Alyson Noel

  Memories, Thinking, Looks

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• The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, been present at his life.

  James A. Baldwin

  Morning, Pain, Terrible Events

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• The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

  Holly Black

  Arms, Matter, Remember

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

  Holly Black

  Regret, Night, Trouble

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.

  Kate Morton

  Light, Secret, Letters

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Fear

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.160, Multnomah

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• In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

  Cherie Priest

  Lying, Wings, California

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Boneshaker”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Stories, Ifs

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Hands, People

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.160, Macmillan

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• I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

  David Levithan

  Teacher, Gay, Self

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.8, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Tree, Drug, Cows

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Belgarath turned back to Senji. “All right,” he said. “The Sardion came to Zamad. How?” “It’s said to have fallen out of the sky.” “They always do,” Beldin said. “Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

  David Eddings

  Sky, Earth, Sake

  David Eddings (2010). “Sorceress Of Darshiva: (Malloreon 4)”, p.147, Random House

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• ... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Hate, Boys, Doors

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• You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Home, Winning

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• Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Home, Take Me

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

  Alice Sebold

  Snowflake

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Baby, Absence, Immortality

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• Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

  Toni Morrison

  Today, Tomorrow

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• Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?" He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. "The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you." "I didn't know," I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. "You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so... wild." "How was I supposed to act?" he asked. "You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face.

  Meg Cabot

  Book, Love You, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.300, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Special, Hot, Stories

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

  Meg Cabot

  Shadow, Abandon

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Space, Patches, Sat

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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