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• I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Simple, Self

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

  Franz Kafka

  Hands, Said

  Franz Kafka (2017). “The Trial / Der Proceß: Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch”, p.19, BookRix

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• Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.

  Rachel Caine

  Trying, Terror, Ifs

  Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.162, Penguin

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• You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

  Robert Cormier

  Children, Independent, Self

  Robert Cormier (2013). “EIGHT PLUS ONE: STORIES”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Moving, Night

  Song: In My Secret Life, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

  Louisa May Alcott

  Nice, Use, Care

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.596, e-artnow

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• The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Doctors, Oil

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• Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.

  Cassandra Clare

  Panthers, Demented, Alec Lightwood

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• Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

  Suzanne Collins

  War, Lines, Should

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.824, Scholastic Inc.

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• As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Girl, Jesus, Children

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

  Nick Hornby

  Scratches, Morphine

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Father, Worry

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Purple, Yesterday

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.

  Richelle Mead

  Jesus, Retirement, Wall

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• The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Friday, Men, Holy Days

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• As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

  John Stott

  Cutting, Gay, Suffering

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press

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• When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

  Richard Sibbes

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Religious

  Richard Sibbes (2013). “The Bruised Reed”, p.80, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Character, Kids, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

  Teresa of Avila

  Perfection, Suffering, Reason

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• The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Suffering, Earth, Christ

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• Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Lonely, Opportunity

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• But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suffering, Crowns, Bears

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Men, Joy

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• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Divine Wisdom, Soul

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