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• Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

  Ann Brashares

  Beach, Thinking, Progress

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.13, Penguin

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• I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh.

  Garth Nix

  Laughing, Littles, Toys

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #6: Superior Saturday”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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• I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.

  Lisa Lutz

  People, Dirt, Findings

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Sampler”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Loneliness, Vampire, Groups

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• He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

  Sarah Dessen

  Optimism, Fearless, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

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• Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Animal, Average

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• A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

  Confucius

  Age, Fifty, Youth

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.

  Knut Hamsun

  Morning, Blood, Rose

  Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.43, Macmillan

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• There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

  Gene Roddenberry

  Bridges, Names, Mind

  Gene Roddenberry (2000). “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Sky, People, Tree

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why

  Jay Asher

  Girlfriend, Strong, Mean

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• If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Two, Heaven

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.100, Penguin

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• In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Writing, Hunting

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• The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

  Anna Godbersen

  Afterlife, Flaws, Passing

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• Does this mean you made a decision? (Carlos) No, I took my clothes off and came in here to tell you I wasn’t going to make love with you. To use your words, ‘for someone so intelligent, you can be pretty dense.' (Gabrielle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Mean, Intelligent

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• By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Truth Is, Manifest, Prove

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• To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Wall, Heart, Darkness

  Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Three John Silence Stories”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

  Sean Covey

  Intelligent, Years, Sound

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Divorce, Light, People

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• There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Butterfly, Night

  "Chanel". Book by Jean Leymarie, 1987.

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• Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Loneliness, Eye, Night

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• Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today

  James Dean

  Dream, Regret, Life Is Short

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• In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

  Saul Bellow

  Depressing, Crazy, Humble

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• Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an empty jacket and flutters with disappointment that I cannot wear her all the time. I call her my hysteric, and this personal hysteric of mine is designer made (though I'm not sure who made her), flattering and comfortable, attractive even, if you're around people who like that sort of thing. She is not anyone, my hysteric; she is blank, electricity dancing around a filament, singing to kill.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Disappointment, Hysteria

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.29, A&C Black

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• I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Forget, Absence

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