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• Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Memories, Passion, Hands

  H. Rider Haggard (2001). “All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed”, p.143, Essential Library

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• Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

  John Green

  Real, Happens, Colin Singleton

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.402, Penguin

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• If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I'm too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else. So I let the train rock me into oblivion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Tired, Rocks

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.49, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?

  Jessica Day George

  Father, Army, Men

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of the Midnight Ball”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Amy Chua

  Trying, Valuable

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• He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, Punishment, Justice

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.252, Random House

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