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• "This is me, remember!" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank statements into the trash and hope a complete stranger would pay off your bills!" This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Secret, Use, Pay

  "Shopaholic Ties the Knot". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2002.

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• And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.

  Jennifer Egan

  Light, Hair, Circles

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Body, Care

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Voice, Long, Sound

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.351, Bantam

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• Remember the White Knight.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Knights, White

  Trenton Lee Stewart (2014). “The Mysterious Benedict Society”, p.197, Chicken House

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• „Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.

  Richelle Mead

  Glasses, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Suicide, Brave

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• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Hamlet And Ophelia, Rosemary

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1794). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet”, p.350

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• Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mother, Eye, Mirrors

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• It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

  Alan Moore

  Opportunity, Voice, People

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• So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, People, Should

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.175, Penguin

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• I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Swimming, Thinking

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• And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Girl, Hurt, Thinking

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• Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Sacrifice, Joy

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

  Ann Patchett

  Hands, Might, Too Much

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• Bluebell,” she said, remembering from Erotique. “Pretty name.” “I call Dmitri Dark Overlord.” “Shae,” Dmitri said and the female vampire rose at once to walk quickly into the house. “Now, pretty Bluebell” another languid stroke across her skin “tell the Overlord what you discovered.

  Nalini Singh

  Dark, Names, Rose

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Blade”, p.109, Penguin

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• For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

  Douglas Adams

  Long, Feelings, Nagging

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

  Judy Blume

  Fall, What Matters, Years

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• Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.

  Eoin Colfer

  Pain, Hate, Artemis

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• Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mindfulness

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 16, 2013

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• I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.

  Raymond Chandler

  House, Feelings, Aprons

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The High Window: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Waiting Rooms, Lasts, Bags

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.69, Granta Books

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• This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

  Mike Shinoda

  Pain, Skills, Names

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• Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.

  Tite Kubo

  Sorry, Sanity

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• the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Psychological Needs, People

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