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• I adored you,” North said. “I just didn’t tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it’s like the first time, I can’t think, I can’t talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I’ve got you back . . . You’re everything, Andie. I should have told you that before.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Crazy, Thinking, Should Have

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• The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Struggle, Forgiving, May

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• I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Difficult, Persons, New World

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Home, Class, Comforting

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.66, St. Martin's Press

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• In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

  Charlaine Harris

  Ties, People, Debt

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead As A Doornail: A True Blood Novel”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Secret, Sometimes, Right Time

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.153, St. Martin's Press

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• You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Moon, Night, Thinking

  Kathryn Lasky (2011). “Wolves of the Beyond”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

  Suzanne Collins

  Our World, Hair, Rainbow

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Blood, Alliances

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eye, Yellow, Color

  Jorge Luis Borges, María Kodama (1985). “Aterstallaren”, E P Dutton

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• Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Secret, Trying

  "The End". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sports, Drinking, Coffee

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

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• Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Bed, This World

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• A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men. Skinny men. Built men. And all combinations thereof. Nice men (so I've heard, but never really seen). Mean men. Decent men, indecent. And who knows which is the best kind to have, to hold, to love? I'd say, with so many men in the world, it would pay to sample a few. Scratch that. More than a few. Lots and lots. And then a few more. And maybe, after years of research, you might find one worth not throwing back. But hey, the fun is in the fishing.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Nice, Eye

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• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Light, Broken, Kitchen

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.3, Grove Press

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• I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Divine dispatches: a religion roundup" Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Advertising, Vocation

  Hanif Kureishi (2014). “The Word and the Bomb”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Real, Book, Doors

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• I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Able, Persons

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Mount and begone. The world awaits you.

  Mervyn Peake

  Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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• Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knights, Doctors, Soldier

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• The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

  Joss Whedon

  Different, Changing The World

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• This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?

  Derek Landy

  Girl, Done, Months

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• A hatchling, that is what you are. A hatchling struggling into the world. I may be younger than you in years, but I am ancient in my thoughts. Do not worry about these things. Find peace in where and what you are. People often know what must be done. All you need to do is show them the way — that is wisdom.

  Christopher Paolini

  Struggle, Years, People

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.507, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Europe, People

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.9, Harper Collins

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