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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Nervous

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

  Rick Riordan

  Drinking, Annabeth, Alive

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• I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Islands, Get Back

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

  Kim Harrison

  Compassion, Giving, Lasts

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• But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Brother, Kindness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.151, Macmillan

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• There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Would Be, Cabins

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Queens, Wonder, Shame

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• I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mother, Years, Emptiness

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• And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Boys, Talking

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Enemy, Persons, Loses

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.107, Penguin

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• I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Giving, Mad, Gone

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• ...five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and I realized the full impact of what I’d done, I’d feel my heart breaking.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Impact, Done

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Moved On, Apologizing

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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• It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Two, Doubt

  Lilith Saintcrow (2011). “Dante Valentine”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?" "No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.

  Suzanne Collins

  New Year, Eye, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.199, Scholastic Inc.

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• I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Lying, Ridiculous

  Arthur Miller (1994). “Death of a Salesman”, p.78, Heinemann

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• Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Stress, Home

  Stephen King (2016). “Coffey's Hands”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

  Meg Cabot

  Perfect, Waiting, Firsts

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• Come on guys, you cant fight like this forever" "Actually," Simon said, raising his hand,"I can". Jace made a weird noise and I realized he was trying not to laugh-which by the way, wasn't working.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, Hands, Laughing

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• Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.

  Charles Yu

  Couple, Reflection, Mirrors

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.10, Vintage

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• I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.

  Ewan McGregor

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

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• I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

  Mark Levin

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Liberty

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• I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Spine

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Anagrams”, p.37, Vintage

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• As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

  Jeannette Walls

  Thinking, Two, Luxury

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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