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• Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Heart, Wings

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Mean, Joy

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• I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Climbing, Dying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

  Tobias Wolff

  Witty, Depressing, Stories

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• Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Important, Engagement

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.30, Heinemann

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• I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

  Lisa McMann

  Long, Trying, Screw Ups

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

  Meg Cabot

  Trying, Quitting, Making Time

  "Teen Idol". Book by Meg Cabot, 2004.

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• I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you...God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.

  Tessa Dare

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Three Nights with a Scoundrel”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Blame, Enough

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• I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

  Daniel Keyes

  Feels, Wanted

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• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Space, Unseen, Serene

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

  Anne Frank

  Children, Real, Differences

  Anne Frank (2001). “Diary Of A Young Girl”, p.59, Penguin Books India

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• But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hiding, Unfriendly, Picks

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.106, Penguin

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• Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything like Yelena, my deepest sympathies," Valek teased. "Hey!" Leif laughed and the tense moment dissipated. Valek handed Leif his machete. "Do you know how to use it?" "Of course. I chopped Yelena's bow into firewood," Leif joked.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mother, Ideas, Silence

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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• You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Past, Gestures, Persons

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Rich in Love”, p.97, Penguin

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• Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb, he towers above other men and, though he does not yet know the power of his stature, he is aware that smaller men become uneasy near him. He is handsomely knit in all; fair to look upon.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Eye, Men, Hair

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• ...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

  A. S. Byatt

  Opposites, Needs, Horror

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Sep 24, 2016

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• And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace." "The Clave can screw itself." "Jace," Maryse said, sounding genuinely parental for a change. "Language." "The Clave wants a lot of things," Jace amended. "It shouldn't necessarily get them all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Language, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.888, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually," Clary said, "I think he stayed because of me." Jace's glaze flicked up to hers with a flash of gold. "Because of you? Hoping for another hot date, was he?" Clary felt herself flush. "No. And our date wasn't hot. In fact, it wasn't even a date. Anyway, that's not the point. When he came into the Hall, he kept trying to get me to go outside with him so we could talk. He wanted something from me. I just don't know what." "Or maybe he just wanted you," Jace said. Seeing Clary's expression, he added, "Not that way. I mean maybe he wanted to bring you to Valentine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Mean, Thinking

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• Paul Gauguin asked, "Whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later!.. Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Rooms, Bigs

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Like You, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

  John Marsden

  Thinking, Bored, Alive

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Knowing, Cradle

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.

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• There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

  Elie Wiesel

  Dust, Sick, Would Be

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.17, Schocken

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