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• The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

  Emma Donoghue

  World, Brightness, Minutes

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Love You, Dying

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.300, Bantam

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• Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Smell, Color

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.384, Library of America

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• I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?

  Nick Hornby

  Next Week, Unhappy, London

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Morning

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• A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

  Lisi Harrison

  Boss, Problem, Can Do

  Lisi Harrison (2009). “The Clique #11: Boys R Us”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.

  Norman Maclean

  Knowing, Forever, Way

  Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.

  Sara Gruen

  Thinking, Fingers, Bigs

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• Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Trouble, Fear Nothing

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.14, Everyman's Library

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• there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  Losing Friends, Triumph, Lovers

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Uncles, Father, Nephew

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• My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Wind, Sound

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Father, Heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• ...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.

  E. Nesbit

  Clever, Book, Reading

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Next Day, Islands, Sea

  Thor Heyerdahl (1990). “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Stupid, Useless, Hovering

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.133, Penguin Group

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• Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

  Kate Morton

  Running, Doors, Firsts

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Stars, Eye, Men

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• But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Daughter, Years, One Day

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

  Shannon Hale

  Moving, Listening, Next Steps

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.206, A&C Black

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• Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!

  J. K. Rowling

  Enemy, Heirs, Draco Malfoy

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• Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands." She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good.

  Rachel Caine

  Sweet, Couple, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.94, Penguin

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• The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Summer, Moving

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.26, Delacorte Press

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• Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry--" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe--" "That'll just depress them." "--and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to?

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Depressing, Uncles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.54, Pottermore

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