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• Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

  Caryll Houselander

  I Love You, Falling In Love, People

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.91, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn't come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Eye, Writing

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• A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Deception, Promise

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• If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Spring, Sunshine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Dream, Long, Waiting

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• Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

  Jodi Picoult

  Different, Energy, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Water, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.

  Lord Dunsany

  Space, Secret, Remember

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Start Lord Dunsany Super Pack”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.

  Maureen Johnson

  Giving, Choices, Study

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• Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

  Wilkie Collins

  Book, Heart, Answers

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Lying, Avalon, Priestesses

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.660, Ballantine Books

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• Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept together for the very first time she looked up at me with her chocolate-brown, trustworthy doe eyes and said, "I've got herpes. I thought you should know.

  Caprice Crane

  Heart, Eye, Soul

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• I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spiritual, Heaven, Soul

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• When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

  Mitch Albom

  Baby, Knowing, Hands

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Dawn comes before sleep does.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Dawn

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

  Homer Hickam

  World, Easy, Suspicious

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.173, Dell

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• Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.

  Susanna Clarke

  Lonely, Play, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.707, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Children, Men

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.

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• Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

  Tim Bowler

  Grieving, Splits, Lifetime

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• His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don't know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason to sing.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Mirrors, Wings, Bird

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• Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Country, Laughter

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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• Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.

  Haruki Murakami

  Faces, Steps, Her Smile

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• What did she see in me? What does she see that I don't?

  Julie Anne Peters

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• Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Pain, Father

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

  Harper Lee

  Night, Men, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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