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• My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Digging, Graves

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

  Gary Paulsen

  Hurt, Dark, Self

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Understanding, Might

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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• And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued...

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Sorry, Past

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• I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Who I Am, Seems

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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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• It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow"(Kish) Dying cows don't sulk." (sin) How do you know? Do you make it a habit to hang around dying cows?" (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dying, Cows, Sin

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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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• You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how one woman can have so much black hair. You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. You will always run away with her. You will always lose her. You will always be a fool. You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear. You have already done all of this and will do it again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Falling In Love, Cutting

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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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• 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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• No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

  Blake Nelson

  Opportunity, Doors, Matter

  Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

  Dean Koontz

  Reflection, Devil, Brutality

  Dean Ray Koontz (1991). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

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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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• We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Can't Change

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.120, Macmillan

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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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• Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

  Janette Rallison

  Impossible, Sometimes, Harder

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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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• 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've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

  Richard Brautigan

  Stars, Kids, Son

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Long, Luck

  Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.9, Penguin

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