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• Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Order, People

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• Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hair, Blue, Positively

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done.

  Kristin Cashore

  Jobs, Sea, Want

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• And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

  Tennessee Williams

  Lying, Drunk, Together

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.173, New Directions Publishing

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• Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Honor, Dignity, Murder

  Alexandra Fuller (2011). “Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Kids, Talking, Clothes

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.16, Penguin

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• What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me?

  Sarah Kane

  Sarah Kane (1998). “Crave”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Hands, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

  John Green

  Believe, Prom, Force

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done-now I'm stressed." "You can't! You're the stable one!

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Men, Stressed, Stable

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.227, Feiwel & Friends

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• Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . —Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH

  Robert Fulghum

  Taken, Journey, Long

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• Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Baby, Remembers Everything

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• I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Add, Phrases

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• More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

  Glen Cook

  Names, Evil, Way

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.311, Macmillan

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• Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Good Life, Reflection, World

  "Working class heroes" by Shirley Dent, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

  Mitch Albom

  Regret, Book, Should Have

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• Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.

  Ali Smith

  Summer, Autumn, Sunday

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• I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

  Shane Koyczan

  I Hate You, Army, People

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• If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

  Philippa Gregory

  Grace, Ifs

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.1495, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

  Amy Chua

  Trying, Valuable

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• [T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.

  Wallace Stegner

  Summer, Football, Mistake

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• They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dying, World, Way

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

  Seth Godin

  You Choose

  "Learning Is Something You Choose" by Catherine Gobron, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2015.

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• Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Hands, Talking, Skins

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• I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?

  Melvin Burgess

  Dream, Thinking, Yesterday

  Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.167, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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