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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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• „You,” the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. „New guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called. I'm done asking, so now I'm commanding. Free me.

  Gena Showalter

  Angel, Boys, Guy

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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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• People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?

  Tana French

  Teenager, People, Saws

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

  Lauren Oliver

  Choices, Firsts, First Time

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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're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Eagle Strike”, p.174, Penguin

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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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• You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, May, Someday

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.876, Bantam

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• I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

  James Cameron

  Strong, Character, Interesting

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• She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

  Nevil Shute

  Thinking, People, May

  Nevil Shute (1991). “A Town Like Alice”

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• It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.

  Karel Capek

  Moving, People, Pieces

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• I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

  John Green

  Weekend, Past, Ideas

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.49, Penguin

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• Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the exchange with David, she waited to see where this one was going. "I won't be able to hold up my head in church." "Really? Oh, Shelley, I'm so sorry," Jaine said sweetly. "I didn't realize you have the dreaded Limp Neck disease. When were you diagnosed?

  Linda Howard

  Sorry, Eyebrows, Church

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

  Robin Sloan

  Sight, Knowing, Secret

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  I Like You, Self, Broken

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• The shouts of triumph become infectious, and I lift my voice to join in, running toward my teammates. Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher. I can't reach her, so I stand off to the side, grinning. A hand touches my shoulder. "Well done," Four says quietly.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Hands, Voice

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.94, HarperCollins UK

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• Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rags, Stories, Want

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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• From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Men, Littles

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.

  Craig Groeschel

  Pain, Lying, Believe

  Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

  Chris Colfer

  Grandma, Writing, School

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• Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strength, Stay Strong, Moving Forward

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Dark Horse movie might be blood, sweat, and tears for Todd Solondz, because things are so important to him and so specific. He has such a rhythm and a tone. So while he may have to work so hard to keep that intact, it allows the actors the freedom to just breathe. Because he's done all the heavy lifting. He really has. He has everything the way he needs it. And so we can just get there and be whatever he saw in the audition.

  Selma Blair

  Horse, Dark, Important

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