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• Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Children, Night

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  Mark Twain

  Hope, Tree, Lord

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

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• I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Cancer, Years, Feels

  "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  Bob Uecker

  Son, Errors, Games

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Long, Doe

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• My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Kissing, Drunk

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• The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

  Willa Cather

  Two Friends, Silence, Pioneers

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Circles, Wings, Legs

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

  Robert James Waller

  Two, Two Of Us

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.114, Random House

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• His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

  Isabel Allende

  Wind, Justice, Indifference

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• I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

  Steven Wright

  Humor, Territory, Funny Bumper Sticker

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• I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, School, Men

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.27, Penguin

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• He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Love, Lonely, Kissing

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• Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Advice, Done, Mistaken

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.28, Vintage

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• I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.

  A.M. Homes

  Husband, Father, Thinking

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.102, Granta Books

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• But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Letting Go, Hands, Going Away

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.64, Penguin

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• All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.

  J.R. Ward

  Definitions, Might, Firsts

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stars, Reflection, Night

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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• There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

  George Orwell

  People, Phrases, Trouble

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• The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Here I Am, People

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• Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Names, Giving

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

  James Joyce

  Imagination, Loyal, Causes

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• She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Standards

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

  Ann Brashares

  People, Lost Everything, Bees

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.158, Delacorte Press

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• It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

  Jodi Picoult

  Missing, Care, Lifetime

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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