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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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• I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

  Gregory Maguire

  New Year, Hate, Years

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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 hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Fallen

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Walk To Remember”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Evil, Choices

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Men, Names

  "Fictional character: Jaqen H'ghar". "Game of Thrones". Season 2, Episode 5: "The Ghost of Harrenhal", www.imdb.com. April 29, 2012.

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• It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

  Tamora Pierce

  Winning, Night, Defense

  Tamora Pierce (2017). “Alanna: The Song of the Lioness”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

  Daniel Handler

  Stupid, Ideas, Broke Up

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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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• Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Thinking, Brain, Sometimes

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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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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• Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

  A. A. Milne

  Mean, Thinking, Owl

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, Doors, People

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

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• Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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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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