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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

Jodi Picoult

I Love You, Falling In Love, People

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

Sharon Creech

Alive, Celebration, Understood

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You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

Elliot Perlman

Sleep, Water, Wake Up

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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Teaching, Knowledge, Men

"Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 1999.

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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

Chuck Palahniuk

Beautiful, Beach, Rain

"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

Haruki Murakami

Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Khaled Hosseini

Memories, Past, Rivers

Marilyn Herbert, Khaled Hosseini (2006). “Book Club in a Box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel The Kite Runner”, p.51, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don't necessarily sense the motion. I've found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.

Jane Hamilton

Hurt, Thinking, Two

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[Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.

Kathryn Stockett

Baby, Husband, Eye

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I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Amy Tan

Secret, Wish, Amy

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Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.

J.A. Konrath

Race, August, Ice

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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

Ellen Meloy

Light, Sea, Water

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She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.

Abbi Glines

Sunday, Covered Up, White

Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

Haruki Murakami

Hurt, Guy, World

Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.454, Random House

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She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren’t for the two subs in the pack, I’d be on the bottom. And she wouldn’t stand up in my presence for guilt.

Patricia Briggs

Two, Voice, Guilt

Patricia Briggs (2008). “Iron Kissed”, p.259, Penguin

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Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.

Markus Zusak

Song, Bridges, Rivers

Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.520, RH Childrens Books

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And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Men, Giving, Desire

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Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.

William Faulkner

Sleep, Bridges, Long

William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

Donald Ray Pollock

Thinking, People, Hitting Bottom

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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

Lauren Oliver

Letting Go, Grief, Echoes

"Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Franz Kafka

Fighting, Ifs

"The Castle". Book by Franz Kafka, 1926.

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Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

Heather Brewer

Heart, Sitting, Pieces

Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.128, Penguin

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This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.

Anna Akhmatova

Wine, Sunset, Air

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I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing. I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau’s neat hand.

Maria V. Snyder

Book, Eye, Hands

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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.

S. E. Hinton

Hurt, Fighting, Winning

S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.80, Penguin

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