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• 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life Is, Happens, Decided

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• So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Ideas, Laughing, Vampire

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.305, Hachette UK

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• Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?

  Jenny Downham

  Dream, Stars, Spring

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• By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perfection, Definitions, Good Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• How lovely." The old lady sighed. "An office romance. I always wanted an office romance. Of course I never really had a job, which made the situation more challenging. Oh, I worked on an assembly line during World War II, but there weren't very many men around and as my husband was off serving his country, an office romance would have been unpatriotic, don't you think?--Mrs. Ford

  Susan Mallery

  Country, Jobs, Husband

  Susan Mallery (2016). “Susan Mallery The Buchanan Series Complete Collection: Delicious\Irresistible\Sizzling\Tempting”, p.581, Harlequin

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• The way everyone looked at me made me uncomfortable. Even Edward. It was like I had grown a hundred feet during the course of the morning. I tried to ignore the impressed looks, mostly keeping my eyes on Nessie’s sleeping face and Jacob’s unchanged expression. I would always be just Bella to him, and that was a relief. Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.747

  Stephenie Meyer

  Morning, Sleep, Eye

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• All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Patience, Men, Tolerance

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug. Then he jumped, chair swiveling so fast I nearly went flying. I heard footsteps in the hall and I scrambled off his lap just as Simon swung in, breathing heavily, like he'd come running.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Running, Dad, Heart

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• Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Mistake, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• It never made sense for you to love me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moon, New Moon

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

  James A. Baldwin

  Taken, Moments, Granted

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• In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering children in or around Bethlehem, or anyplace else. No other author, biblical or otherwise, mentions this event. Is it, like John's account of Jesus' death, a detail made up by Matthew in order to make some kind of theological point?

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Kings, Children

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• It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

  Donald Miller

  Ideas, People, Want

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Believe, Dna

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.202, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Love You, Men

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• She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

  Louise Erdrich

  Jobs, Mistake, Book

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• Don't touch her," he growled. There was a note in his voice that would of scared me if it had been directed toward me. He shoved me behind him, putting his body protectively in front of mine with my back to the table. Guardians came at us from all directions,and Dimitri began dispatching them with the same deadly grace that had once made people call him a god.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, People, Grace

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.237, Penguin

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• I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

  Juliet Marillier

  Men, Hands, Trust Me

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.271, Macmillan

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• Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Loneliness, Choices, Want

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.438, Hamilton Books

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• Dade Kincaid is not afraid of the things of which the world is made.

  Nick Burd

  World, Not Afraid

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• Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

  Peter Høeg

  People, Life And Death, Decision

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fall, Fire, Light

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2007.

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• But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch. It was Dimitri. Always Dimitri. Dimitri, the man I loved. Dimitri, the Strigoi I wanted to save. Dimitri, the monster I'd most likely have to kill. The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd move on. He was always with me, always on my mind, always making me question myself.

  Richelle Mead

  Summer, Moving, Men

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• The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

  Dashiell Hammett

  Faces, Beats

  Dashiell Hammett (2001). “Crime stories and other writings”

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• Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, "--frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!" and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. "Is that what you meant, my lord?

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Witty, Cheater

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