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• The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

  Dan Brown

  Powerful, Block, Eye

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

  Roland Barthes

  Love Is, Kind, Good Things

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last. Karen kingsbury # Leaving

  Karen Kingsbury

  Life Changing, People, Leaving

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• I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Ocean, Past

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

  Michael Grant

  Boys, Voice, Mouths

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• Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Clueless, Years

  "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

  Paullina Simons

  Together, Letting You Go, Last Time

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• I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

  Rick Yancey

  Eye, Men, Sharks

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.307, Penguin

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• You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Time, Knowing, Might

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.88, Macmillan

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• A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Heart, Battle

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• When was the last time you did something for the first time?

  John C. Maxwell

  Service Culture, Firsts, First Time

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Powerful, Decision

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.150, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Choices, Doe, Horizon

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.71, A&C Black

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• That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

  Mitch Albom

  Together, Kind, Realizing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• There's never the right last moment. Even if you get to say good-bye, even if you get to say "I love you", even if you jump off a plane and get a tattoo and hug everyone you've ever met right before you drift off with a smile, it is never the right last moment. There is always more to say, somewhere to go, something to remember. Another discussion, another fight. There is always supposed to be another day.

  Pamela Ribon

  Tattoo, Love You, Fighting

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• the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

  Charles Bukowski

  World, Caught, Glances

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• Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Dream, Girlfriend

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• Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

  Bisco Hatori

  World

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• Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

  Rick Yancey

  Animal, Meals, Alive

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.28, Penguin

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• That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Memories, Cat

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Humanity, Ifs

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• So,” I said at last, staring at my hands. “How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Car, Gone

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Eye, Men

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.

  Sylvia Day

  Giving, Single Women, Hours

  Sylvia Day (2015). “Sylvia Day Crossfire Series Four Book Collection”, p.1230, Penguin UK

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