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• Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Smart, Brave New World

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• I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us.

  Kami Garcia

  Cake, House, Sugar

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• You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

  Nalini Singh

  Tears, Wounds

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.346, Penguin

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• Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

  Gail Carriger

  Paper, Delicacy, Information

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Peace, Biblical

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• Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

  Mary E. Pearson

  Mean, Life Is, Moments

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.80, Macmillan

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• No.” He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth. “I can’t give you forever.” The nibbling increased in intensity, leaving a bead of blood in the center of her mouth. “Because we’re not a good match?” Of course she would remember every insult he’d ever thrown at her. “Yes.” “Then what can you give me?” “Here. Now.” Something his body craved more with every second that passed.

  Gena Showalter

  Rip, Lying, Blood

  Gena Showalter (2011). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.114, HQN Books

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• Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Wake Up, World

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Judging, Excuse

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Heart, Bleeding

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Names, Paper, Way

  Michael Thomas Ford (2011). “Suicide Notes”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces

  Christopher Paolini

  Silly, Healing, People

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1555, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

  Rachel Cohn

  Talking, Broken, Together

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• I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Running, Jesus, Eye

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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• ...even saying good-bye isn’t enough. There’s always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There’s always going to be that one missing piece.

  Mira Grant

  Should Have, Bye, Missing

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• No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.

  Elif Safak

  Moving, Heart, Opportunity

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• Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

  E. Lockhart

  Cute Love, Love Is, Cake

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.140, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Thomas jabbed a thumb over his shoulder and raised his eyebrows. "You met our new friend?" Miho responded, a smirk flashing across his face. "Real piece of work, this guy. I gotta get me one of those shuck suits. Fancy stuff." "Am I awake?" Thomas asked. "You're awake. Now eat—you look horrible. Almost as bad as Rat Man over there, reading his book.

  James Dashner

  Real, Book, Reading

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• I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Hate, Eye

  William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.364

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• You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Rain, Land, Giving

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• A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Steam, Filled

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.116, Penguin

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• Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

  Rick Riordan

  Winning, Games, Sometimes

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• I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

  Richelle Mead

  Insult To Injury, Water, Rats

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.287, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?" Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. "I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says.

  Neal Shusterman

  Kids, Opportunity, Missing

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Shrimp, Said

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.61, Macmillan

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