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• Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.

  Helen Fielding

  Dad, Stupid, Valentine

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• When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

  Jane Green

  Girl, Independent, Insecure

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• If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Worry, Balance, Trying

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.334, Random House

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• The last time someone dried my hair for me was in sixth grade, when i broke my arm." "How did you break it?" "I fell out of a tree." "You fell out of a tree?" "I think there was a boy and a dare involved." "Ah.

  Tammara Webber

  Boys, Thinking, Hair

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• Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked. Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?" Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Blue, Evil

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.34, Scholastic Inc.

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• They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.

  Darynda Jones

  Dog, Hot, World

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.105, Macmillan

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• I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible... The quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul... The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Heart, Sleep

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• They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.

  Michael Grant

  Night, Said, They Said

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• Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

  Daniel Keyes

  Pain, Psychosis, Self

  "Flowers For Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, 2012.

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• We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational

  Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

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• This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Goodbye, Firsts, Strange

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Christianity is not just involved with "salvation", but with the total man in the total world. The Christian message begins with the existence of God forever, and then with creation. It does not begin with salvation. We must be thankful for salvation, but the Christian message is more than that. Man has a value because he is made in the image of God.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Men, Being Thankful

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.89, InterVarsity Press

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• The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.

  Robert Jordan

  Light, Hands, Feelings

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory Of Light: Book 14 of the Wheel of Time”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Knowing, Courageous

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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• You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.

  David Levithan

  People, Trying, Different

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.131, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

  Bear Grylls

  Courage, Dark, Journey

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• Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.

  Maureen Johnson

  Jobs, Thinking, Goal

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.33, Penguin

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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reflection, Reality

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• I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Pain, Water, Settling

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• Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I’ve gotten older. But now I don’t want to be ‘sort of dating’ someone. I don’t want to be ‘kinda hanging out’ with someone. I don’t want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.

  Greg Behrendt

  Dating Someone, Priorities, Feelings

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.

  Susan Cain

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Feel Better, Useless Life, People

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.17, Feral House

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• She simply stood there and waited for him to show her the next move. And hoped it only involved sword fighting and not seduction.

  C.C. Hunter

  Moving, Fighting, Next Move

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• That’s the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t make it perfect. I can’t keep it in a bottle, can’t ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try to synthesize and put into pill form, and they’re making tremendous advances every day. They’re winning the war against love. It’s probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if there’s room for love in either of those scenarios.

  Pete Wentz

  War, Winning, Reality

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• I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.

  Darynda Jones

  Passing By, Saws, Passings

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.402, St. Martin's Press

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