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• I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn’t going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.

  Karen Chance

  Fighting, Winning, Feelings

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• I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

  C. S. Lewis

  Light, Doors, Differences

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• I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

  John Green

  Weekend, Past, Ideas

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.49, Penguin

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• Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mom, Honest, Annoying

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.4, Wendy Lamb Books

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• No. He says when you're dealing with any kids of supernatural beings, Gods and Devils and angels, you tend to think about them like hurricanes or earthquakes, some kind of mindless force of nature. But if they're real, then they have minds. They know your name. So even reading about the Devil tips him off, he knows instantly he's being read about and that you're somebody he may have to deal with. And I'm thinking what you did in Vegas went way, way beyond that." "What 'I' did? What about us? We were both there." "Yeah but I cut my hair since then. They probably think that was a different guy.

  David Wong

  Real, Reading, Kids

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• The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Years, Agriculture

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2009.

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• You are not wrong. You fought to protect your world. Isn't that good enough? After all, justice in this world is just a bunch of principles made by those with power to suit themselves. No one really thinks of others, you will lose everything if you cannot keep up. Only two kinds of people exist in this world—those who steal and those who are stolen from. So then, today, I just stole your future. That's all.

  Yana Toboso

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Degrees, Stones, Said

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• . We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them.

  Jo Nesbo

  Attitude, People, Drug

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• The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Interesting, World

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• It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Littles, Rooms, Towns

  "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

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• What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Men, Rocks, Miles

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• Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed. "Do listen. He's not wicked at all!" There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. " He isn't!" Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Kindness, Wicked, Sophie

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• Pens?" Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people." "I'm kind of wondering what you're going with those pens," Chase said Madison scrunched up her nose. "Get your mind out of the gutter." "My mind is always in the gutter around you.

  J. Lynn

  Eye, People, Mind

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• But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Wine, Athlete

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.926, Penguin UK

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• Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

  John Green

  Ideas, Way, Likes

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.293, A&C Black

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• There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

  Emily Giffin

  Sorry, Regret, Two

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With”, p.796, St. Martin's Press

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• Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Knowing, Broken

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 23, 2013

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• I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hurt, Growing Up, Sorry

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.262, Macmillan

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• We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mean, Denial, Born

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't take a rope or a life vest or anything. But at the moment, she was just so happy that she paddled over to Leo and kissed him on the cheek, which kind of surprised him. "Miss me?" Leo laughed. Piper was suddenly furious. "Where were you? How are you guys alive?" "Long story," he said. A picnic basket bobbed to the surface next to him. "Want a brownie?

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

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• The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

  Koushun Takami

  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, Lying, Dark

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.22, Penguin

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• Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

  Kami Garcia

  Talking, Speak English, Speak

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