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• I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Energy, Would Be, Might

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• Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Falling In Love, Never Fall In Love, Sun Also Rises

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.32, Hamilton Books

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• Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

  William Dalrymple

  Gone, Misery, Delhi

  William Dalrymple (2003). “City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi”, p.60, Penguin

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• Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…”, p.6486, e-artnow

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• I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

  Bram Stoker

  Girl, Lasts, Poor

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.258, Book Jungle

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• My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

  Oscar Wilde

  Important, Young, Dare

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Ems, Nannies

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• I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Dangerous, Pastime

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.98, Penguin

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• A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.

  John Donne

  Good Night, Valentine, Clothes

  John Donne (1949). “The complete poems of John Donne”

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• Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you

  Lauren Kate

  Lips, Be You, Tasty

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• Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.

  Nicole Krauss

  Missing, Pages, Way

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

  Phyllis Diller

  Thinking, Romance, Pages

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• Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire." "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer." "Whoa." Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sorry, Coffee, Hair

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

  Janet Evanovich

  Vampire, Trying, Necks

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.688, Bantam

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• Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Feet, Relax

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• You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

  Anne Stuart

  Cutting, Humans, Cried

  Anne Stuart (2011). “Shameless”, p.168, MIRA

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• Nobody ever sees this part,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s pretty.” “So it’s like track six on an album,” Cole said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Track, Albums, Matter

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• I haven't have fun for a long time," Kaia said with a pout. "Me, either. Except with myself, but I don't suppose that counts." "It does the way I do it.

  Gena Showalter

  Fun, Long, Doe

  Gena Showalter, Kait Ballenger (2013). “After Dark: The Darkest Angel\Shadow Hunter”, p.2, Harlequin

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• Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.

  Jacob Grimm

  Rose, Tree, Never Leave Me

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1997). “The Complete Fairy Tales”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

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• Boys are like drugs,' her father said, 'just say no.

  Jill Shalvis

  Father, Boys, Drug

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• And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

  Tove Jansson

  Voice, Tables, Raised

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• Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she didn't want him to stop. Her back arched, her body shattered, she howled.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Rip, Lying, Kissing

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• We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Running, Eye, Hands

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• I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

  Anne Rice

  Lying, Lovers, Lestat

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1060, Ballantine Books

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• Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

  Robert Jordan

  Sides, Sucessful, Staring

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.302, Macmillan

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