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• Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of course." He winked at us, then pretended to fall straight through when the faerie door opened. Even Arianna laughed as the door closed behind him.

  Kiersten White

  Fall, Doors, Feelings

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• God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.

  Jay Asher

  Looks, Knows, Freaking Out

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.33, Penguin

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• It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Soul, Unexpected, Genuine

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, Punishment, Justice

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.252, Random House

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• So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Criminals, Betray, Stills

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage

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• But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Memories, Powerful

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• ...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

  Lionel Shriver

  Secret, Appearance, Consumed

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.145, Profile Books

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• And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

  Portia de Rossi

  Food, Kids, Body Weight

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• There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

  Ivo Andric

  Dark, Men, Years

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• In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, People, Being Free

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• Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

  Veronica Roth

  Noise, Refuge, Activity

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• What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

  Veronica Roth

  Honesty, Eye, Thinking

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• Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

  Adam Smith

  Patriotic, Government, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Innocent

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

  Rick Riordan

  Rivers, Promise, Needs

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• But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Sage, World

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• And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Hero, Daddy

  "Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Believe, People, Faults

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

  Samuel Beckett

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  1955 Waiting for Godot, act1.

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• if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

  Kim Harrison

  Doctors, Expression, Tomatoes

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• If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Talking, Advice, Police

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.52, Del Rey

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• She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mistake, Skills, People

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.37, Knopf

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• I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?

  Darynda Jones

  Uncles, Skanks, Mouths

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

  Richelle Mead

  Moving, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1365, Penguin

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• sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

  Franz Kafka

  Sleep, Men, Innocent

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.22, Schocken

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