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• I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me – with respect – and I think that’s probably worth more than anything.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Touching, Thumbs

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• You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Strong, Loneliness

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• Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Names, People

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• Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.143, Top Five Books LLC

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• There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Evil, Soul

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES äóñ The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Colour out of Space, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity”, p.400, e-artnow

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• "I am silly, now and then," Sandry admitted. "My mother said I was, anyway." "If you know, you can stop it." Carefully Daja placed a candle behind Trader Koma's image. "Then you've never been silly, or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning."

  Tamora Pierce

  Mother, Silly, Warning

  "Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, Book 1)". Book by Tamora Pierce, 1997.

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• Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Relationship, Hurt

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• Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

  Barry Hughart

  Childhood, Sanity, Ashamed

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• History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Las Vegas, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

  David Eddings

  Stupidity, Littles, Entitled

  "The Seeress of Kell".

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• Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fashion, Comfort, World

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Struggle, Humility, Passion

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.139, Applewood Books

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• In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Lonely, Romance, Ruins

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Swan Thieves”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Real, Nice

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.66, Gideon House Books

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• When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.

  Nora Roberts

  Long, People, Way

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Chasing Fire”, p.359, Penguin

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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

  David Levithan

  Air, Desire, Weight

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• ...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

  Nora Roberts

  Strong Women, Needs, Arms

  "Glory In Death". Book by J. D. Robb, 1995.

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• ...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

  Norman Maclean

  Literature, Made, Happened

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• You think I need to be rescued?" "I think it doesn't hurt to let someone else do the rescuing every now and then, when your own armor starts to get banged up.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hurt, Thinking, Needs

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.140, Harlequin

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• We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Night, Drifting Off

  Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Humility, Angel, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.530, Bantam Classics

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• So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

  Darren Shan

  Blessed, Appreciate, Magic

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• If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon

  Christopher Paolini

  Coward, Eragon, Reactions

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• You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Curves, Years

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.14, Diversion Books

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