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• I’m so jealous,” she whispered, and he blinked.
  “Of what?”
  Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes he’d ever seen. “You’re so alive, Lore. There’s fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.

  Larissa Ione

  Jealous, Eye, Fire

  "Ecstasy Unveiled". Book by Larissa Ione, 2010.

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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 know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Pride

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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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• I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.

  Patricia Briggs

  Eye, Faces, Your Face

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.57, Penguin

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• Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Would Be, Foolish, Known

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

  David Foster Wallace

  Ideas, People, Trying

  "David Foster Wallace's first biographer, D.T. Max, on his inscrutable subject" by Mark Sussman, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!"

  Chaim Potok

  Pain, Heart, Son

  "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, (p. 264), 1967.

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• Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

  Joan Didion

  Kindness, Real, Winning

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

  Gayle Forman

  Selfish, Ifs, Wounds

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• Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in my lap. "I wish she could be there this weekend." Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. "So do I," he said.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Weekend, Hands, Wish

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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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• Summerset, don't you ever sleep?" "It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--" Roarke dropped his briefcase, grabbed Summerset by the lapels. "Has she been hurt? Where is she?" "A nightmare. She was screaming." Summerset lost his usual composure and dragged a hand over his hair. "She won't cooperate. I was about to call your doctor. I left her in her private suite." As Roarke pushed him aside, Summerset grabbed his arm. "Roarke, you should have told me what had been done to her." Roarke merely shook his head and kept going. "I'll take care of her.

  Nora Roberts

  Hurt, Sleep, Doctors

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.603, Penguin

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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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• I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.' 'The man's eighty-nine', muttered Jem. 'He may well have the problem anyway.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Men, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.

  Meg Cabot

  Opportunity, Said, Dies

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

  Richelle Mead

  Moving, Past, Should Have

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.126, Penguin

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• I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Blue

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 21, 2015

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