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• Nick, space. Now. (Acheron) Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian’s number on it. ‘In case of loss, call my owner.’ (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Numbers, Space

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Wise, Country, Real

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• Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, May, Bigs

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• All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Responsibility, Choices, Privilege

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Men

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• I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.

  Deacon Jones

  Sports, Football, Fun

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• Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But I count you blessed [...] for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory of Lothlórien shall remain ever clear and unstained in your heart, and shall neither fade nor grow stale.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Memories, Blessed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Regret, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.223, Bibliolis Books

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• When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Pain, Want Something

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• And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Memories, Gone

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.360, Random House

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

  Emma Forrest

  Missing, Slipping, Twenties

  Emma Forrest (2007). “Thin Skin”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.

  Adam Rex

  Cheese, Weight, Sugar

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• And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

  Simon Armitage

  War, Hands, Land

  Simon Armitage (2011). “Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde”, p.22, Guanda

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• Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

  Catherine Fisher

  Dark, Soul, Emptiness

  Catherine Fisher (2011). “The Dark City”, p.72, Penguin

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• He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

  Garrison Keillor

  A Loss For Words

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.72, Penguin

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• I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dark, Years, Ice

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.254, Macmillan

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• Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

  Jack Vance

  Garments, Existence, Puzzled

  Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

  John Steinbeck

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.67, Penguin

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• No, it was the brutal loss of his family that haunted him and for that Nykyrian couldn’t fault him at all. Syn had been put through a meat grinder by life. The fact that man could still get up and make it through a day without blowing his brains out amazed him.’ (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Brain, Meat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Dream, Pain, Taken

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Growing Up, Childhood

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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• You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  Katherine Applegate (1995). “August Magic”, Simon Pulse

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• My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

  Ann Aguirre

  Heart, Should, Lashes

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.176, Penguin

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• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
  As sages in all times assert;
  The happy man's without a shirt.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Laughter, Cutting

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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