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• Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

  Lauren Oliver

  Baby, Pain, Past

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Great Love, Needs, Certain

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.86, A&C Black

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• You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Done, May

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.876, Bantam

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• Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy... and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.

  Bill Watterson

  Dream, Dad, Stupid

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

  William Goldman

  Dream, Art, Lucky

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

  David Levithan

  Long, Firsts

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.

  Janet Fitch

  Notebook, Writing, Night

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• It’s a promise ring,” he said solemnly. “The lady at the store said it’s what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.

  Kristin Hannah

  Girl, Mean, Giving

  Kristin Hannah (2011). “Night Road”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways

  Ernest Becker

  Real, Men, Animal

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• He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

  S. E. Hinton

  Desperate, Violent, Young

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.

  Gerald Morris

  Father, Doors, Two

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Lioness and Her Knight”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Live Life, Writing, Second Chance

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• A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

  Joanne Harris

  Men, Numbers, Tree

  Joanne Harris (2008). “Runemarks”, p.88, Random House

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• No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

  Anne Tyler

  Couple, Nurse, Want

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• If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Boys, People

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat

  Robert Jordan

  Cities, Would Be, World

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.

  Dan Wells

  Determination, Fall, Responsibility

  Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Promise, I Promise

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie

  Ally Carter

  Wise, Strong, Uncles

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• The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

  Kristin Hannah

  Pain, Men, Choices

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• I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

  Henry Miller

  Falling In Love, Mean, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Strong, Stars

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• Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I did to poor old Jethro, the first Jethro, may he rest in peace, may they someday find his head.

  Derek Landy

  Rest In Peace, I Like You, Boys

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• There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.

  Holly Black

  Home, People, Goes On

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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