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• I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

  Mindy Kaling

  Swimming, College, Community

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.47, Three Rivers Press

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• Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.

  Gena Showalter

  Warrior, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Was it me you were discussing?” he countered with lifted brows. “I couldn’t tell from the description you were giving. Since when am I kind, considerate, refined, and amiable?” “You’re angry,” Victoria concluded on a sigh. A low chuckle rumbled in his chest and his arms tightened, drawing her close to his leann, muscular body. “I’m not angry,” he said in a husky, gentle voice. “I’m embarrassed

  Judith McNaught

  Voice, Drawing, Giving

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Once and Always”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.

  David Lynch

  Pain, Flower, Creativity

  "Fifty Contemporary Film Directors". Book edited by Yvonne Tasker, p. 259, 2010.

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• Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Inspirational, Two, Suffering

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.52, Vintage

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• there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Girl, Sisterhood, Connections

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.25, Scholastic UK

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• I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

  Rachel Cohn

  Boys, People, Special

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Mistake, Sadness

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• He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Morality, Innocent

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.111, Penguin Group

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• He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Baby, Attitude, Trouble

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.211, Delacorte Press

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• And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty, non-inhuman things like tearing up lists of names, and returning tadpoles to lakes, and saving people's lives. Not to mention kissing with all the otherwordly splendor of a horny angel.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Angel, Kissing, Names

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.217, Delacorte Press

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• Sitting over words
  Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
  Not far
  Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
  The echo of everything that has ever
  Been spoken
  Still spinning its one syllable
  Between the earth and silence.

  W. S. Merwin

  Dark, Night, Echoes

  "Utterance". Poem by W. S. Merwin, gladdestthing.com.

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• I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Brother, Revenge

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• At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

  Arthur Golden

  Painful, Melancholy, Moments

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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• I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

  Robertson Davies

  Fear, Worst, Knows

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Hypocrite, Break Off, Want

  Joe R. Lansdale (2012). “Edge of Dark Water”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Commit, Persons

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• There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Wings, Different, Spread

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.402, Macmillan

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• I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.

  Veronica Roth

  Father, Insecurity, Selfishness

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• Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Ambition, Dull Life

  Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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• Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Real, Feelings

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.314, Macmillan

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• I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Forever, Today

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• Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

  Melina Marchetta

  Liking Someone, Stories, Territory

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• I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Heart, Mind, Wish

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

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