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• I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Stuff, No Excuses

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.116, Penguin

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• What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dream, Pedestal, Shells

  "Godel, Escher, Bach". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, observer.com. 1979.

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• He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that, because she was kind. And before that, because she was smart and funny. Because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. Because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. Because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she'd have to say about it--how many stars she'd give it and why.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Beautiful, Stars

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Son, Two, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.155, Macmillan

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• If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Hangover, Agony, Suffering

  Kenzaburo Oe, Kenzaburō Ōe (1969). “A Personal Matter”, p.56, Grove Press

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• What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

  Patricia Briggs

  Racist, Werewolf

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• When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Interview with Alisa McCune, www.sfsite.com. July 2004.

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• I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

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• How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!" "I'm not that kind of guy!" He frowned thoughtfully. "On second thought, why not?" I blushed angrily and looked at Raquel. "What is he? I don't see anything!" "He's not 'anything'.Just a talented boy." "Then how did he make a door? How did he get through the Paths?" "Wait,so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants,too?" Lend and I joined forces in a dark glare. "Only if you want me to vomit," I snapped.

  Kiersten White

  Believe, Eye, Dark

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• Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sleep, Paris, Perfect

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.59, Crown/Archetype

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• There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Dog, Adults, Population

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.

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• It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Responsibility, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Looks, Irony, Forget

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• Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

  Sara Zarr

  Waiting, Sitting, Torture

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• There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Science, Light

  Raymond Chandler (1976). “The notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English summer: a gothic romance”, Ecco

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• Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

  Melina Marchetta

  Letting Go, Hurt, Sorry

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• I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Kissing, Rocks, People

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Something, Maybe”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• [about being a father] I don't really remember what it was like before. Whatever I had going on, it was bullshit. It wasn't important. It's kind of a nice thing about being a dad. My identity is really about them now, and what I can do for them, so it sort of takes the pressure off of your own life. What am I going to do, who am I? Who cares, you've got to get your kids to school. So I like it that way.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Nice, School

  "Louis C.K. is more upset by people being mean to Tracy Morgan than homophobia". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. June 17, 2011.

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• There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Like You, Explanation, Knows

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.224, Macmillan

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• When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful, Book, Glasses

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• According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find `the truth for me`.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Meaningful, Important, Individual

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.322, Hachette UK

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• Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.

  Claudia Gray

  Guy, Hot, Texting

  Claudia Gray (2012). “Balthazar”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Block, Surveillance Cameras

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• There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

  Rachel Simon

  Sadness, Rainy Day, Two

  Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

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