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• You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Winning, Challenges

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Mean, Loss

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.501, Random House

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• There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Always Trying, Water

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said. -Baron Arald

  John Flanagan

  War, Simple, Two

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• Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

  Patrick Ness

  Fall, Thinking, Voice

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• A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

  Stephen King

  Book, Giving, Water

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Smoking, Boards, Hats

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Depression, Strong, Lying

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.163, Grove Press

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• My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Girl, Heart, Iron

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• All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Doors, Trying

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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• At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

  Sylvia Plath

  Twenties, Bones, Dies

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Men, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Track, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.166, Penguin

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• One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

  May Sarton

  Reality, Odds, Doe

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Flower, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2012

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• To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Youth, Folly, Repeats

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

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• Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back. -Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao

  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Dad, Long, Enough

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• If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a very brave and heroic death. Oh and don't Oh, and don't touch the radio--I've got it tuned right where I want it and I don't want you messing that up.

  Derek Landy

  Car, Brave, Want

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• You probably should get back out there. You’re ignoring your other guests.” “Screw them.” “I’m sure that many of them, you already have.

  Julie James

  Guests, Should, Screws

  Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.131, Penguin

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• get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet! ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!!

  Margaret Weis

  Waiting, Piglet, Ill

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• But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Yield

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Islands, I Realized

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

  Eileen Wilks

  Dog, Cat, Numbers

  Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.64, Penguin

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• I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and Ron wasn't going to stop him. That third night he found his way more quickly than before. He was walking so fast he knew he was making more noise than was wise, but he didn't meet anyone. And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry sank down to sit on the floor in front of the mirror. There was nothing to stop him from staying here all night with his family. Nothing at all.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Mother, Father

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