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• I have a plan.” He groaned. “I was afraid of that.” “My plans are not terrible.” “Isabelle’s plans are terrible.” He pointed a finger at her. “Your plans are suicidal. At best.” She sat back, her arms crossed over her chest. “Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret.” “I would pluck out my own eyes with a fork before I would give away your secrets,” Simon said, then looked anxious. “Wait a second. Do you think that’s likely to be required?

  Cassandra Clare

  Suicidal, Eye, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

  Haruki Murakami

  Names, Giving, Mind

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking

  Elizabeth Scott (2012). “Between Here and Forever”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.

  Sarah Waters

  Real, Heart, Kind

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• Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have a terrible sense of direction. Help someone who is trying to help you. Just help. Make an impact. Show someone you care. Say yes instead of no. Say something nice. Smile. Make eye contact. Hug. Kiss. Get naked.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Smile, Nice, Eye

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• The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Boys, Hair, Sight

  "The Amulet of Samarkand". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Blessed, Thinking

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• I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Terrible Events, People, Guarantees

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• Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.

  Antonin Artaud

  Fall, Mean, Exercise

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.79, Grove Press

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• To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Heart, Might, Way

  Stewart O'Nan (2008). “The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy”, p.363, Anchor

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• Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

  Paul Auster

  Age, Different, Way

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.21, Penguin

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• Jason muttered "And I saw something...Really terrible." "That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-" "Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Grace, Jason

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• She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Animal, Matter

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.459, Scholastic Inc.

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• He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time.

  Sebastian Faulks

  War, Wings, Effort

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• There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

  Rick Yancey

  Remember, Wonderful, Recalls

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

  David Wong

  Dark, Boring, Revelations

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.422, Macmillan

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• All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

  Paula McLain

  Games, Waiting, Kind

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.317, Ballantine Books

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• There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dark, Joy, Secret

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that somewhere else in the world, someone else has to eat soot as well. I want to know that soot tastes terrible. I don't want to be told that soot's good for the digestion. And of course, by soot, I mean beans.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Somewhere Else, World

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• The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

  Albert Camus

  Hero, Suffering, Exaltation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.49, Vintage

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• I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fake, Complexity, Skeptical

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.

  Ki Longfellow

  Men

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• But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Mean, Discovery

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