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• Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Numbers, People

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• The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

  Daniel Clowes

  Mean, Smoking, Guy

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• I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

  David Sedaris

  Past, Forever, Way

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• He was still dazed, and though she hated to admit it, he was actually rather attractive. If a girl happened to like that square-jaw, bright-blue-eyes, devilish-dimples kind of thing. Although he was in desperate need of a haircut and a good shave.

  Marissa Meyer

  Girl, Eye, Squares

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• We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Husband, People

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• If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting sensless wars, dying of poverty and aids- unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, War, Fighting

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• how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

  Charles Bukowski

  Being True

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• It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

  James Patterson

  Fall, Brain, Cracks

  James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.129, Random House

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• O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

  Orson Scott Card

  Son, Men, Knowing

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.369, Macmillan

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• I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

  Orson Scott Card

  Boys, Want, Beans

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.284, Macmillan

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• They're true," I replied defiantly. "I came here to kill you. And if I can't do that, then I'd rather die." "You failed, you know. On the street." "Yeah. I kind of figured that out when I woke up here.

  Richelle Mead

  Yeah, Streets, Knows

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.740, Penguin

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• That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Broken, Damage, Ultimate

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.493, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Female, Monkeys

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

  Vasily Grossman

  Beautiful, Dog, Cat

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.120, Random House

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• Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

  David Levithan

  Wrapping Paper, Done, Truth Is

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.42, Egmont UK

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• Eleanor,” he said, just because he liked saying it, “why do you like me?” “I don’t like you.” He waited. And waited… Then he started to laugh. “You’re kind of mean,” he said. “Don’t laugh. It just encourages me.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mean, Laughing, Like You

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Suicide, Self Harm

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.79, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.” “Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Two, Joining

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• It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

  Benjamin Carson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• You're wearing at least four different kinds of sweater." "This is a scarf." "You look tarred and sweatered.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Sweaters, Different, Looks

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.91, Macmillan

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• It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

  Gayle Forman

  Stupidity, Ends, Certain

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• "No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

  Ally Carter

  Long, Pants, Honest

  "United We Spy". Book by Ally Carter, September 5, 2013.

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• Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kindness, Doe, Pay

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Hurt, Broken

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• It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favorite clothes—cardigans and tights and leg warmers.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Clothes, Icy, Legs

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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