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• I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Thinking, Decision, Tea

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• The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Depressed Person, Essentials

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• No,''he said.''I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did...terrible things.'' The words were mild, but the tone of his voice spoke legions. The radiant faces of his family turned sober.''I was lost. Beyond hope. Except...Rose believed in me. Rose never gave up.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Rose, Faces

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• Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Laughter, Fun, Heart

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• It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

  Kiera Cass

  Serious, Problem, Away From You

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Darkness, Degrees

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• And this must be Avery?" "Oh, God, no," Cam said. "This is Candy, Mom." His mother's eyes widened and a bit of color infused her cheeks. "Uh, I'm..." "I'm Avery," I said, shooting Cam a look. "You had it right." She spun around, smacking Cam across the arm. Hard, too. "Cameron! Oh my God. I thought..." She smacked him again and he laughed. "You're terrible.

  J. Lynn

  Mom, Mother, Eye

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• The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

  John Green

  Memories, Eye, Heaven

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.113, Penguin

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• It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.

  George Saunders

  Guy, Rotten, Way

  George Saunders (2013). “Home: Family Snapshots”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

  J. D. Salinger

  Depressing, Hurt, People

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• And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Loss, Dark, Doe

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.154, Macmillan

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• people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Sometimes, Reason

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• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Men, House

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Thinking, Islands

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• It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Determined, Conversation, Future Relationship

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• Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

  Jodi Picoult

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• No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

  Tea Obreht

  Silence, Secret, Matter

  "Téa Obreht: 'I don't feel I've earned the Orange prize'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Pain, Home

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reality, Profound, Childhood

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• The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing

  Caitlin Moran

  Rain, Fall, Math

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• Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.61, Oscar Wilde

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• In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.

  Mervyn Peake

  Pain, Real, Doors

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• It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Waiting, Unhappy, Matter

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Able, Taught

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.165, Penguin

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• Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Sorry, Stupid, Dull

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.40, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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