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• You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Vampire, Needs, Hunger

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• Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Hands, Guy, Brain

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• I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

  Charles Stross

  Atheist, Believe, Waiting

  "The Fuller Memorandum (The Laundry Files, Book 3)". Book by Charles Stross, July 1, 2010.

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• The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Fear, Doors

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• Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Clever, May

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• Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goal

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 580, 1856.

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• A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Painting, Made, Subjects

  Howard Hodgkin, Enrique Juncosa, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland), Tate Britain (Gallery), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2006). “Writers on Howard Hodgkin”, Tate

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• I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Funny, Baseball, Doctors

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• All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Spring, Dancing, Stories

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.279, Macmillan

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• Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Believe, Long

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Stupid, Cities, People

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Clueless, Dwarves

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• He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Hurt, Should Have

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• (...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

  Ned Vizzini

  Kids

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• I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

  Holly Black

  Crazy

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Problem, Ends

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• You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

  Anne Lamott

  Space, Giving, Intuition

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Real, Games

  Meg Cabot (2008). “How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.

  Steig Larsson

  Positive, Fighting, Hands

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• Acheron kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Rest. We'll be back when he needs you." He watched her climb into bed before he took his nephew down to his room. "Well, it appears to be just the two of us, little one. What say you we get naked, drunk and find us some wenches?" The baby actually smiled up at him as if he understood. Acheron nodded. "So that's it, eh? Barely a month old and you're already lecherous. You are your father's son.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Father, Son

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.206, Hachette UK

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• If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.

  James Patterson

  Fighting, Thinking, Shining

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction”, p.306, Random House

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• There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.

  Tom Robbins

  Country, Home, Journey

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.194, Bantam

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• Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.

  Pete Wentz

  Sometimes

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• The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Gun, Looks, Faces

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