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• The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

  Daniel Handler

  Trying, Saws, Cradle

  "The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), September 21, 2004.

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• Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

  Tim Winton

  Rooms, Awake, Persons

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• From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

  Neil Peart

  Eye, Fire, Light

  Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.84, ECW Press

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• When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Phones, Years

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• As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.

  Ally Carter

  Fall, Men, Fire

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• Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

  Isak Dinesen

  Voice, Silence, Faithful

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.104, Vintage

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• Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Criticism, Done

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.3007, Delphi Classics

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• As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Years, Names, Numbers

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I'm the last of the mad ones.

  Maureen Johnson

  Mad

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.196, Penguin

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• He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

  Marie Lu

  Pain, Eye, Boys

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• The first time I saw you, when you stepped into that Skiz ring against Kaede, I thought you were the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. I could've watched you forever. The first time I kiss you..." That memory overpowers me now, taking me by surprise. I remember every last detail of it, almost enough to push away the lingering images of the Elector pulling June to him. "Well, that might as well have been my first kiss ever.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Girl, Memories

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• The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Men, Swings

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• The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

  Ariel Gore

  People, Silence, World

  Ariel Gore (2003). “Atlas of the Human Heart”, p.23, Seal Press

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• Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Journey, People

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.16, HarperCollins Australia

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• Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Depressing, Giving, Hollies

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• The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Brad Pitt

  Life, Beautiful, Envy

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• I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Chosen

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• If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Eye, Hands

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• Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Distance, Loneliness, Farewell

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.464, Xist Publishing

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• Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

  Mira Grant

  Personality, Exit, Dramatic

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• There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

  George Orwell

  Safety, Soul, Together

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1256, Penguin UK

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• And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." She shook her head. "Don't." "What?" "Don't talk about after." "I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Trying, Sound

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.213, St. Martin's Griffin

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• What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

  Cameron Dokey

  Long, Stories, Done

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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