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I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lonely, Voice, Perfect

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I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Lying, Stupid, Dragons

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

David Levithan

Mistake, Bigs, Turns

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.46, Egmont UK

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You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it

Laurell K. Hamilton

Faces, Frying Pans, Said

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Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.

Meg Cabot

Girl, Law, Considering

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In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that.

Neil Gaiman

Baby, Thinking, People

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I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes.

Justin Bieber

Fun, Thinking, Shoes

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What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

Jeanette Winterson

Home, Heart, Want

Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

Rumi

Ocean, Heart, Love Is

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He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

George R. R. Martin

Stupid, Night, Men

George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3184, Bantam

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Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

Anne Perry

Grieving, People, Degrees

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No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

Adolf Hitler

Suits, Politician, Bathing

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If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

Timothy Keller

Grateful, Heart, Mercy Of God

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Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

Augusten Burroughs

Naps, Soup, News

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I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.

Stephen Chbosky

Mom, Nice, Kids

Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

Abbi Glines

May, Privilege, Privacy

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You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.

Sara Shepard

Stars, Light, Years

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Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it beautiful.

David Henry Hwang

Beautiful, Girl, Queens

"M. Butterfly". Play by David Henry Hwang, February 10, 1988.

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Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

J. K. Rowling

Daughter, Farewell, Opposites

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We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Jacques Prevert

Trying, Example, Trying To Be Happy

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I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

Stephen Chbosky

Beautiful, Song, Mean

Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am doing. I will step back and you will move on. I will let you go. ... Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere, like a warm and comforting glow.

Tabitha Suzuma

Distance, Moving, Mean

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He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.

R.L. LaFevers

Hands, Doe, Woods

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It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Brent Weeks

Guilty, Innocent, Dies

Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.388, Hachette UK

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She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on.

Rick Riordan

Wall, Blow, Past

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