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• So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.” “I hope not. It’s a girl.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Baby, Giving

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.494, Hamilton Books

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• You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Horse, Children, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.440, Hamilton Books

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• All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

  Alice Sebold

  Desire, Enough, Ifs

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Kissing

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• Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Sleep, Who Cares

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.153, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery

  Derek Landy

  Done, Skulduggery Pleasant, Anticipate

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.170, HarperCollins UK

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• I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

  Richelle Mead

  Badass, Nice, Mean

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• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

  Cornelia Funke

  Sweet, Father, Passion

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• You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Heart, Perfect Days, Broken

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• So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Blood, Opposites

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• Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven”

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• I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.

  Suzanne Collins

  Remember, Wanted

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.35, Scholastic Inc.

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• Destroy yourself, if you don't know!

  Frank O'Hara

  Ifs

  Frank O'Hara (2005). “In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems”, p.65, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stories, Pieces, Seems

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• I don't know. This college would probably have the same problem the last one did." I frowned. "What's that?" "Homework." "Adrian," growled his father. "It's okay," said Adrian breezily. He rested his arm casually on the table. "I don't really need a job or extra money. After Rose and I get married, the kids and I'll just live off of her guardian paycheck.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Father, Kids

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.37, Penguin

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• You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially here of all places—" He froze and it was one of those rare moments when Adrian Ivashkov was caught totally and completely off guard. "Did you know," he said slowly, "that Victor Dashkov is sitting on your bed?" "Yeah," I said. "It was kind of a shock to us too.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Weekend, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.78, Penguin

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• The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

  Stanley Kubrick

  Alive, Jackets, One Thing

  "Fictional character: Private Joker". "Full Metal Jacket", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

  George Orwell

  Powerful, Book, Order

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Release, Acts Of Courage, Spite

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• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

  Martha Grimes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

  William Golding

  Skulls, Answers

  "Lord of the Flies".

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• Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic? "Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Light, Hands

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• People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

  Kathy Lette

  Money, People, Shops

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Nip 'N' Tuck”, p.62, Random House

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• Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.

  Nicholson Baker

  Writing, Thinking, Email

  Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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