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• Okay, I don’t like it when you walk away from me, but other than that...(Arik) Yeah, I guess that makes sense. You transcend a dimension to come here and I brush you off. I can see where that might get annoying. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Might, Dimensions, Annoying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.229, Macmillan

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• People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Sound, Stories

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.248, Random House

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• We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

  Norton Juster

  Mean, Long, Use

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

  Dorothy Allison

  People, World, Ifs

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.135, Penguin

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• So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me.

  Anne Lamott

  Falling In Love, Fun, Hate

  Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• Leah: "That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was anything in my stomach, it would be coming back." Seth: "They are vampires, I guess. I mean, it makes sense, and if it helps Bella, it’s a good thing, right?" Leah and Jake stare at Seth. Seth: "What?" Leah: "Mom dropped him a lot when he was a baby." Jake: "On his head apparently." Leah: "He used to gnaw on the crib bars, too." Jake: "Lead paint?" Leah: "Looks like it." Seth: "Funny. Why don’t you two shut up and sleep?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mom, Baby, Mean

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• Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

  Yann Martel

  Stories, Noise, Painting

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lying, Small Acts, Events

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.145, Revell

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• Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

  Laura Dave

  Belief, Creeps

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• The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.

  Douglas Adams

  Clogging Up, Criminals, Problem

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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• Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense." "I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.

  Ilona Andrews

  Moments, Please, Oversimplification

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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• Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

  Miranda July

  Inspirational, Being Single, Decision

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• I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.

  John Green

  Life, Talking, Appreciate

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.26, Penguin

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• A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

  Rollo May

  Giving, World, Patterns

  Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How much longer will I live? (Urian) You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn’t make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Immortal

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• I couldn‘t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that, the fight was over, my coven had lost and my enemies had won. But my dead coven was full of people who would have loved to watch me burn, and my enemies were speaking to me kindly when they had no reason to.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fighting, People, Enemy

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• The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

  Paulo Coelho

  Feelings, Share, Eleven

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 14, 2014

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• Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Order, Feelings

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems didn't make sense to my teachers. They didn't rhyme. They were about the wind sounds, the planets' motions, never about who I was or how I felt. I didn't think I felt anything. I was this mind more than a body or a heart. My mind photographing the stars, hearing the wind.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teacher, Stars, Writing

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• It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

  Elmore Leonard

  Sound, Doe

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• No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

  Colum McCann

  Loneliness, Trying, Finals

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.253, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.

  Suzanne Collins

  Couple, Curves, Light

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.213, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

  Simone Elkeles

  Two, Chocolate, Peanut Butter

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• Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

  Ernst Junger

  Doubt, Saint, World

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