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• When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Moving, Two

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.74, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?

  Marissa Meyer

  Light, Hands, Darkness

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• If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one can touch. You won’t be another faceless, nameless, forgotten human in a long historical line of the defeated. You will be a steeled warrior, and a force to be forever reckoned with. And beneath the pain that lingers, you will have the comfort of knowing that you are strongest of all. That when others caved and broke, you kept fighting even against hopeless odds.” - Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Fighting, Warrior

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• She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

  Joe Hill

  Sweet, Book, Snacks

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

  Jon Krakauer

  Opportunity, Dust, Hands

  Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

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• Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

  Lora Leigh

  Past, Lessons, Vain

  Lora Leigh (2012). “Lora Leigh: The Breeds Novels 1-6”, p.2228, Penguin

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• For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

  Henry Miller

  Thinking, Water, Miracle

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• Reasons get forgotten.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Reason

  Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

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• Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

  Anne Michaels

  Sadness, Voice, Long

  Anne Michaels (2009). “The Winter Vault”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Past

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Important, Warfare, Plans

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster

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• Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Childhood, Toys

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.

  Ally Carter

  School, Doors, Faculty Members

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• She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, Coraline, Ifs

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Differences, Three, Obscurity

  Oscar Wilde, Richard Butler Glaenzer (1906). “Decorative Art in America: A Lecture, Together with Letters, Reviews and Interviews. Edited, with an Introd. by Richard Butler Glaenzer”

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• Isn’t that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would’ve thought that a man with your powers would be past the urge to compensate.” Barabas grinned. “I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus,” Saiman said dryly. “Thank you for reminding me.” “Always happy to oblige.

  Ilona Andrews

  Gun, Past, Men

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

  Ilona Andrews

  Talking, Pet, Trying

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

  Orson Scott Card

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.87, Macmillan

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• And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Memories, Writing, One Day

  "Fictional character: Julia Jarmond". "Sarah's Key", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Together, Lines

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• Wave to the nice tourists, Sparkle. I promise it won't cause pestilence and firestorms." Elena bit the inside of her cheek at Aodhan's glare-she'd never seen anyone crack his reserved shell. "Sparkle and Bluebell, nice." "Never," Aodhan said, hands stubbornly on the girder, "ever repeat that. Illium seems to have forgotten I promised to separate his tongue from his mouth should he utter it again in this immortal lifetime.

  Nalini Singh

  Nice, Hands, Promise

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.116, Penguin

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• They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

  Holly Black

  Mistake, Thinking, Kind

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Memories, Pushing

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• So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too.

  Marie Lu

  Sorry, June, Might

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• A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

  Paul Newman

  Anger, Feuds, Rage

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