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• What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Lasts, Scones

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.257, Penguin

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• There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

  Kris Carr

  Change, Life Lesson, Bullshit

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

  Sarah Dessen

  Looks, Matter, Way

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.155, Penguin

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• One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Dressing Up, Clothes

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Thinking, Good Things

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.222, Princeton University Press

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

  Randy Pausch

  Matter

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Trying, Lucky

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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• The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.

  Janette Oke

  Love Is, Promise, Truth Of God

  Love Comes Softly, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Lying, Two

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• I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Thinking, Keeping Promises, Break

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Made

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• How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

  Susanna Clarke

  Men, Evil, Stupidity

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.80, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

  Keith Ablow

  People, Evil, World

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• I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Facts, Priceless

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• Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Book, Divorce, Past

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• If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Way, Century, Ingenuity

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Jobs, Sight, Forever

  Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• People often seem to think that when you're following the Lord and trying to do His will, your path will always be clear, the decisions smooth and easy, and life will be lived happily ever after and all that. Sometimes that may be true, but I've found that more often, it's not. The muddled decisions still seem muddled, bad things still happen to believers, and great things can happen to nonbelievers. When it comes to making our decisions, the key that God is concerned with is that we are trusting and seeking Him. God's desire is for us to align our lives with His Word and His will.

  Tim Tebow

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

  Sarah Dessen

  Needs, Knows

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.96, Penguin

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• It's not a bad thing to be loved.

  Koushun Takami

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• And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

  Dean Koontz

  Funny Things, Storm, Good Things

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• Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sometimes, Good Things, Crescendo

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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