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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

  Michael Cunningham

  Morning, Thinking, Feelings

  "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Comforting, Might

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.281, Open Road Media

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• I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something.

  Kim Harrison

  Smell, Cake, Hats

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• Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Moon, Long

  Stephenie Meyer (2013). “New Moon: The Graphic Novel”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)

  Richard Matheson

  Running, Sweet, Struggle

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• ...And you're the only one who knows.

  Billy Joel

  Good Morning, Morning Inspirational, My Love For You

  Song: And So It Goes, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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• Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Wonderful Life

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.386, Dell

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• Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Katniss, Mockingjay Book

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• Whathat!" Tyson gasped. "Those are the stables for the pegasi," I replied, "You know, winged horses?" "Whasthat!" "Um... those are the toilets.

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Toilets, Tyson

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• Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Smart, Stupid

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• Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Data, Imagination, Needs

  "Jonathan Franzen on fiction, fame and Freedom". Interview with John Barber, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 27, 2010.

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• The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. 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

  Love, Mean, Thinking

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• Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Thinking, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Men, Long, Waiting

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• For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Beautiful, Leaving, Taste

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