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• Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything

  Elizabeth Strout

  Catholic, Guilty, Boxes

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.10, Random House

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• It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.

  Richelle Mead

  Moving, Practice, Secret

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

  Richelle Mead

  Brain, Impossible, Dimitri

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Want, Holes, Center Of The Universe

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• Good God," I said. "This is the most stereotypical vampire food ever." "Only if it was raw. What do you think?" "It's good," I said reluctantly. Who knew that bacon would have made all the difference? "Really good. I think you have a promising future as a housewife while Lissa works and makes millions of dollars." "Funny, that's exactly my dream.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Thinking, Differences

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• I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.

  David Nicholls

  Mistake, School, Thinking

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.42, Villard

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• As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

  Melissa Marr

  Errors, Littles, Stuff

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• Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

  Nick Hornby

  Sorry, Couple, Regret

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• Linus Van Pelt: Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?
  Charlie Brown: What's that?
  Linus Van Pelt: The world didn't come to an end.

  Charles M. Schulz

  World, How You Feel, Down And

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• This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

  P. C. Cast

  Breathing, Feelings, Intense

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.122, Macmillan

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• i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Want, Rooms, Said

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• Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Dream, Lonely, Kissing

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2013). “This Heart Of Mine: Number 5 in series”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Thinking, Pigs

  Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle: The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers”, p.425, Modern Library

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• It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Book, Loss

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• Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Unique, People

  Yann Martel (2009). “What Is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes”, p.152, Vintage Canada

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• The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

  Hilary Mantel

  Flower, Fate, Men

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• Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Cold, Indulgence

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

  Jesse Ball

  Punishment, Wish, Three

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Nov 27, 2011

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• It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And what was the purpose of these eyes, this impossible face, the softness and the curves of this body, the strength of this mind; what was the point, if none of the men who desired her were to give her any babies, and all it ever brought her was grief? What was the purpose of a woman monster?

  Kristin Cashore

  Baby, Grief, Eye

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.138, Penguin

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• i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall of rain approaching from the west desert was pretty spectacular, too. along with being gorgeous, it was sooo muddy. which made driving home in no shoes so very fun :) if only i could post photos here! a picture is worth a thousand words, yes? If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Wall, Fun

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• I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Strong, Heart, Rome

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.772, e-artnow

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• She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Decision, Pastor, Shows

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Buddhism, Simple

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.34, Penguin

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• ...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Bored

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.201, Penguin

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