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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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• Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Real, Games

  Meg Cabot (2008). “How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

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• Do I love him? Yes. But when the final battle comes, I'll have to kill him. That's just our reality. We both know exactly where we stand."- Francesca

  Lauren Kate

  I Love Him, Reality, Battle

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• I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Disillusion, Cried

  This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)

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• It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Waiting, Friendly

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• The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in.

  Steve Kluger

  Mountain, News, Adultery

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• You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Needs, Machines, Remember

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.82, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Order, Thorns

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.150, Penguin

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• What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

  Jodi Picoult

  Devil

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• Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.

  Douglas Adams

  Special, Used, Should

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

  Nora Roberts

  Always Smile, Do You Know

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• You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Danger

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, American Gods, Nobody Knows

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• ‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Vices

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• As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Long, Waiting

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.96, Vintage

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• We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Ideas, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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• What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

  Terry McMillan

  People, Sometimes

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.151, Penguin

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• If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one's head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.

  Daniel Handler

  Mountain Ranges, Towels, Casseroles

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• We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

  David Mitchell

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.208, Random House

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• And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Men, Doors

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.11, Random House

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• The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, War, Disease And Death

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.65, Multnomah

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• You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Sick

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Adrift on the Nile”, p.21, Anchor

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• Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Vanity, Curiosity

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Secret, Tables, Wonder

  "The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3)". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, October 20, 1955.

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