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• The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Self Harm, Thinking

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Order, Practice

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• "When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

  Alice Sebold

  Done, Bones, Said

  "The Lovely Bones". Book by Alice Sebold, 2002.

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• Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Sadness, Night

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.35, Vintage

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• The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

  Adolf Hitler

  Twelve, Vipers, Scream

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.250, eKitap Projesi

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• Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.

  Paullina Simons

  Wall, Fall, Night

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• If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Hurt, Angel, Twenties

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.28, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Mary E. Pearson (2012). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5”, p.6, Macmillan

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• The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Firsts, Truth Is, Unnoticed

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• He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moon, Promise, Lasts

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Past, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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• You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

  Laurence Yep

  World, Changing The World, Changed

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• We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

  Libba Bray

  Honesty, Eye, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Left Hanging, Golden, Way

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.212, Macmillan

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• Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

  David Levithan

  Get Better, Blah, Young

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.

  Ai Yazawa

  Love You, Night, Sky

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• We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Stories, Speak, Ends

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• Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Forever, Good Things, Ends

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• The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Way, Done, Losing

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• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Blessed, Magic Moments

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• And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Fairy Tale, Spokes

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• That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

  Dean Koontz

  Memories, Way, Never Forget

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

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• Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

  Leonard Cohen

  Gratitude, Morning, Couple

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.157, McClelland & Stewart

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