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• I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive than I thought." "I am NOT sensitive," Cale snapped, irritated by the very suggestion. "It's probably his mother's fault," Lucian said, ignoring him. "Martine named him after Caliope, the muse of poetry. Between that and his father dying when he was only fifty, he's probably suffered under Martine's namby-pamby influence.

  Lynsay Sands

  Mother, Father, Years

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• No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Honest, Embedded

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.34, Macmillan

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• And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

  George R. R. Martin

  Queens, Knights, Names

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• Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “A Woman of No Importance”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Should Have, Bonnets

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1133, GENERAL PRESS

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• You should've just gotten a kids' meal.” Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. “You could've saved me a lot of money. And gotten a toy.

  Richelle Mead

  Kids, Meals, Burgers

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• I don't suppose that she gave you the job based on looks alone?" Adrian had been staring off but now flashed me a big smile. "Why, Sage, you sweet talker." "That's not what I meant! What happened?" He shrugged. "I told the truth." "Adrian!" "I'm serious. She asked me what my greatest strength was. I said getting along with people." "That's not bad." I admitted. "Then she asked what my greatest weakness was. And I said, 'Where should I start?'" "Adrian!" "Stop saying my name like that. I told her the truth. By the time I was on the fourth one, she told me I could go.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Jobs, Names

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• "Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Wise, Caring

  "Villette".

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• If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Giving Up, Thinking, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1814, Macmillan

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• Fighting positions, please, ladies...' 'That's debatable,' Halt said in an undertone to Will as they stood watching... 'The 'fighting' part or the 'ladies' part?' Will replied with a grin. Halt looked at him and shook his head. 'Definitely the 'ladies,'' he said. 'There's no debate about the 'fighting.'' Will shrugged. He knew there was an edginess to the girls' relationship and that it had something to do with him. Why that should be so was beyond him.

  John Flanagan

  Girl, Fighting, Edginess

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• I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be „slim“.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Eye, Jeans, Excess

  Marya Hornbacher (2014). “Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you shouldn't," Eve said. "Think of all the little old people and the children.

  Rachel Caine

  Children, Thinking, Law

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• Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.

  Gail Carriger

  Cat, Vampire, Dear

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dad, Grateful, Looks

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• A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Knowing, Each Day

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• In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Keys, Darkness, Prison

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2007). “The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.75, Penguin

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• O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

  Georgette Heyer

  Love You, Mad, Might

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• He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Moving, Should Have, Roots

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• I adored you,” North said. “I just didn’t tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it’s like the first time, I can’t think, I can’t talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I’ve got you back . . . You’re everything, Andie. I should have told you that before.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Crazy, Thinking, Should Have

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• I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

  Georgette Heyer

  Wish, Despair, May

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• Do you think I should stay away from him?" I asked in a scratchy voice. Todd took a long time to answer. "My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Thinking, Play

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Should Have

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• They defy gravity, as good books should.

  David Levithan

  Book, Good Book, Gravity

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

  Gladys Taber

  Christmas, Xmas, Mean

  "Still Cove journal". Book by Gladys Taber, 1981.

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• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Light, Broken, Kitchen

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.3, Grove Press

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