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• Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.

  Ilona Andrews

  Car, Shows, Left

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.139, Penguin

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• Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sitting, Movement, Toilets

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.57, Feral House

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• Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.

  William Faulkner

  Fall, Cutting, Color

  "Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction". Book by Rosa Coldfield (p. 32), 1994.

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• I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

  Richelle Mead

  Doe, Answers, Guessing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.683, Penguin

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• In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Successful, Years

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• That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Two, Want Something, Say Anything

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Choice”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

  Alan Moore

  Heart, Doe, Chasms

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• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

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• You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Garden, Mirrors

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “You Who Never Arrived”

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• I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

  Tami Hoag

  Men, Brave, Would Be

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• I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

  Juliet Marillier

  Men, Hands, Trust Me

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.271, Macmillan

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• So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.” “I hope not. It’s a girl.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Baby, Giving

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.494, Hamilton Books

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• You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Horse, Children, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.440, Hamilton Books

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• This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Kissing

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• Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Sleep, Who Cares

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.153, Scholastic Inc.

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• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

  Cornelia Funke

  Sweet, Father, Passion

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• So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Blood, Opposites

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• Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven”

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• It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

  George Orwell

  Powerful, Book, Order

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Release, Acts Of Courage, Spite

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• The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

  William Golding

  Skulls, Answers

  "Lord of the Flies".

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• Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic? "Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Light, Hands

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• Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Consciousness, Film

  Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Seventeen

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 27, 2011

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