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• I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

  Margaret Haddix

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster

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• and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Car, Ribbons

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• That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Too Much, Results, Should

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.290, 谷月社

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• If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Regret, Years, Mind

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• Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.

  Lauren Kate

  Know How

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.183, Delacorte Press

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• Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Special, Tools

  "Wanting to Die" l. 7 (1966)

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• What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

  Aryn Kyle

  Being Sad, Needs, Reason

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  It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Golden Sayings of Epictetus". Book translated by Hastings Crossley, 2012.

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• God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire

  William S. Burroughs

  Karma, Queens, Stupid

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• You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

  George Eliot

  Feelings, Duty

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• Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.

  Anita Shreve

  Two, Long, People

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• Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Self, Answers, Loathing

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, 1995 - 1997.

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• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Communication, Emotions Feelings

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• I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

  Anne Frank

  Courage, Work, Women

  Anne Frank (1952). “The diary of a young girl”

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• Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

  Mario Puzo

  Blow, Hands, Life Is Like

  Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

  Bram Stoker

  Fashion, Able, Dresses

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.86, Book Jungle

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• Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

  Charles Yu

  Moving, People, Constant

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.22, Vintage

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• All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.

  Susane Colasanti

  Limbs, Mines, Ifs

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.22, Penguin

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• Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

  Jim Elliot

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Ordinary

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• You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

  Beth Kephart

  Rivers, My Love For You, Goes On

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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• Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

  Stephen King

  Children, Only Child, Whole

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

  Eve Ensler

  Taken, Years, Differences

  "Writing plays, righting wrongs" by Beth Dozoretz, www.politico.com. September 24, 2013.

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• But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

  Albert Einstein

  Reflection, Destiny, Ties

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• Tell me about it. It’s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. It’s like, she’s so angry all the time. And I didn’t even do anything!” “That’s so wrong.” “Yeah.” “Where’s your dad?” “I don’t know. My mom had me when she was still in high school, so . . .” “You don’t see him at all?” “No, and I don’t want to. I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mom, Dad, School

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• He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses. They definitely seemed alarmed. But then, they would. After all, he had just leapt to his feet unexpectedly, waving his saxe knife around like a lunatic.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Knives, Feet

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