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• Callan took a deep breath. “I never expected you.” He shook his head with an edge of amusement. “You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler.” “Naw, just a determined woman.” She grinned against his shoulder. “I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.

  Lora Leigh

  Amusement, Determined, Shoulders

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• The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Lines, Sucker

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.19, Penguin

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• Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Have Faith, Flow, Ifs

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• How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Mother, Fall, Thinking

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• It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

  Kami Garcia

  Kissing, Sugar, Way

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• If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.

  Richard J. Foster

  Simple, Thinking, Things In Life

  "Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline".

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• He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Evil, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Running, Sorry, Blood

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.38, Xist Publishing

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• Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

  Danielle Steel

  Needs, Care, Happens

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• Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Marijuana, Sometimes, Used

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.144, Algonquin Books

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• A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

  Daniel Handler

  Sitting, Eating, Conversation

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• It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Heart, Break, Ifs

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• How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Feelings, Would Be

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

  Jim Butcher

  Wall, Way, Easy

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• Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, Crazy, Imagination

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• If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Long, Mets, Ifs

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• Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

  Roland Barthes

  Love Is, Lasts, Kind

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.

  Kristin Cashore

  Done, Lasts, Enough

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.230, Penguin

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, School, Ideas

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• My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.

  Tracey Emin

  New Year, Successful, Night

  Tracey Emin (2013). “Strangeland”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

  Stephen King

  Worry, Dying, Young

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• The good things take care of themselves.
  We want to find all the negatives.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Inspirational, Business, Challenges

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• Believe in all the good things you keep inside
  There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

  Jeremy Enigk

  Freedom, Believe, Mind

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• For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

  Plautus

  Hope, Disappointed, Expected

  "Rudens" by Plautus, II. 3. 69; Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 71, 211 BC.

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