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• But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

  Bill Bryson

  Stars, Home, Sleep

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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• And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fate, Perfect, Miracle

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• Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

  Jodi Picoult

  Women, Struggle, Together

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Who I Am, Long

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Meanwhile,” Simon added, “I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Sleep, Bones

  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.16, Simon and Schuster

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• What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn’t a very attractive woman for her age.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Sleep, Age

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Sometimes, Breathe

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

  John Wesley

  Phrases, Holiness, Christ

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.593

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• Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

  Andrew Vachss

  Mean, Would Be, Cop

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• I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cat, Begging You, Voice

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• Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

  Bill Bryson

  Luck, Together, Sound

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• I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Ivy, Poison, Growing

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• I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Illustration, Married

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.

  Suzanne Collins

  Nice, Training, Crew

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.235, Scholastic Inc.

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• Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

  John Lennon

  People, Different, Levels

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• When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

  Paul McCartney

  Kids, Messages, Firsts

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• No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath Briony bed, but no one wanted to know.

  Ian Mcewan

  Squirrels, Skulls, Bed

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2001.

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• Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

  Eric Roth

  Death, People, Important

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I saw your name in lights last night. It's the middle of the night, and I can't sleep, thinking all my trumpeting thoughts, and I get out of bed, open the curtains, and look into the night full of stars, and you know what I saw? Your name. Like the stars joined up and spelled the word for me. Like a sign.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Done, Feels

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Couple, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Aftermath, Killing, Persons

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.59, Scholastic

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• Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Country, Art, Dark

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• You know, sometimes when you're too close to someone, it's hard to see who they really are.

  Kirsten Miller

  Sometimes, Hard

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.44, Penguin

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• When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, People, Giving

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