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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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• Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.

  Jack Zipes

  Life Changing, Destiny, Way

  "The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World". Book by Jack Zipes, 1988.

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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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• Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

  Rick Riordan

  Iguanas, Laughing, People

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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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• He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ocean, Fall, Eye

  Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.242, Random House

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• Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Villain, Undone

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.514, Modern Library

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• And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

  John Lennon

  Christmas

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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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• I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.

  Ann Aguirre

  Helping

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.77, Macmillan

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• You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Rain, Land

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• ‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Stupid, Littles, Outcomes

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• Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Criticism, Answers

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.3007, Delphi Classics

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• We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

  Marissa Meyer

  Lying, Long, Giving

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• What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

  William Carlos Williams

  Forgiveness, Intervention, Has Beens

  William Carlos Williams (1967). “Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.

  Lauren Oliver

  Alex, Buried, Okay

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.

  Brené Brown

  Giving, Connections, Where We Come

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• She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

  Simone Elkeles

  Hands, Years, Sound

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.

  Amanda Hocking

  Morning, Annoyed, Mind

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Torn”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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