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• Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Cancer, Bed

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.253, Random House

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• There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Alive, Hunger, Said

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.95, Anchor

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• i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Perfection, Ego

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Talking, Long, People

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.80, Grove Press

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• I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

  Thomas Mann

  Home, Artist, Two

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.131, Vintage

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• We don’t want civilians walking around who know about us. Got it? (Tee) Wow, you’re like a ferocious bunny, aren’t you? (Nathan) Worse. A bunny can be fluffy sometimes. Tee always goes for the throat. Trust me. I’m her partner and she’s shot me three times now. (Joe)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Three, Bunnies, Want

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2011). “Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Memories, Live Life, Home

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House

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• I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Ideas, Voice

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• Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Regret, Should Have, Decision

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.198, Penguin

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• One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it

  Nicole Blackman

  Girl, Baby, Kissing

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• You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.

  Jasper Fforde

  Baby, Thinking, Hands

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• Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Giving, Library

  Jasper Fforde (2009). “The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures 1”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’ Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’ Meggie had no answer for that.

  Cornelia Funke

  Princess, Mean, Skins

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.

  Clive Barker

  Ambition, Play, Light

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 12, 2014

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• My father looked like he was having a stroke— not that Mel seemed to notice because he just kept talking. “Patrick needs a ride. No car, you know, and so I figured, hey, I can pick up some gas money.” He laughed. No one else did, and now Patrick looked like he was trying to push himself inside the door and hide.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Father, Doors, Talking

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• To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Daughter, Running, Atheist

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

  Richard Powers

  Long, Viruses, Bugs

  Richard Powers (2010). “Generosity”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Want, Fallen

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• I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Despise, Understand Me, Mr Thornton

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “North and South”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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• Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Feel Better, Long

  "The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), September 30, 1999.

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• I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

  John Green

  Fall, Talking, Feelings

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by John Green and David Levithan, April 6, 2010.

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• Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie said. "Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water." "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,'" Zia said. "You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Order, Cities

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly. He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!" "I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.

  Tamora Pierce

  Children, Silly, Hair

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Sadness, Discovery

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• His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Expression, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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