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• We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

  Liane Moriarty

  Baby, Children, Party

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• I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

  Christopher Paolini

  Past, Repent, Plague

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.419, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Hair, World

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he was really seeing me for the first time. "I don't think I ever really lived until this. I've never done anything that mattered before, but now I'm fighting to save my life, and yours. And I know it sounds really cheesy and lame, but I don't think I ever really felt alive. Not until I met you.

  Amanda Hocking

  Eye, Fighting, Thinking

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• Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

  Lorrie Moore

  Numbness, World, Helping

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Oct 29, 2012

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• He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Strong, Reading, Home

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.289, Egmont UK

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• What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

  Peter Straub

  Worst, Happened, Worst Things

  Peter Straub (2015). “Ghost Story”, p.29, Penguin

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• There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Names, Scotland

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.18, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beach, Luxury, Water

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Father, Faithful

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.111, SCM Press

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• Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Hands, Almost Done

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's a worldwide fact men hate shopping." "How can I hate it when I've never done it?" Her lips curled into a slow, beautiful smile. "If you weren't already an angel, I'd dub you a saint. Poor guy. You have no idea what you're in for.

  Gena Showalter

  Beautiful, Hate, Heart

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• You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Sleep, Autumn, Artist

  Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.

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• He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Just Being, Being There, Enough

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #2: Evil Star”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

  Robert Bresson

  Intuition, Ears, Ten

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• To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

  John Green

  Thinking, House, Warfare

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.226, A&C Black

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• had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

  Kenny Chesney

  Crazy, Brave, No Excuses

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• When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

  Charles Baxter

  Broken Heart, Jobs, Lying

  Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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• Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Children, Hands, Use

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1248, Macmillan

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• Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

  Jim Butcher

  Animal, Joy, Lust

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• What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

  Jim Morrison

  Knives, Dawn, Earth

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• and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sorry, Games, Play

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• You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Way, Explanation

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.41, Random House

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• I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

  Rick Riordan

  Doors, Sweat, Risk

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