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• I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you.

  Derek Landy

  Struggle, Love You, Fighting

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• But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

  Susan Fletcher

  Soul, Sat, Best Things

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• Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

  James Cameron

  Men, Rose, Way

  "Titanic". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Crazy, Communication, Long

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mad, Flying, Devil

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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• That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Two, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.65, Dial Press

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• Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

  John Hughes

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

  Ian Mcewan

  Waiting, Doing Nothing, Emotion

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• The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

  Karl Barth

  Littles, Sides, Argument

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• He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

  Alice Munro

  Fall, Traps

  Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.36, Random House

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• But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?

  Suzanne Collins

  World, Certain

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• ...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Encounters

  Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.113, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.

  Joss Whedon

  Crazy, Talking, Please

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• I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Forever, Would Be

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• You're still in love' 'No I'm not, I'm not She'll always be a part of me, and she's an important person in my life but for the two of us something wasn't working.' 'What element?' 'We never found out

  Woody Allen

  Two, Important, Elements

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• Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!' yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.

  Rick Riordan

  Gun, Games, Nasty

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• It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

  Guillaume Musso

  Scary, Balance, Life Is

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• Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

  Guillaume Musso

  Hurt, Real, World

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• An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, People, Pessimism

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.61, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

  Carl Sagan

  War, Thinking, Nuclear

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.349, Ballantine Books

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• Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

  Randy Pausch

  Rare Person, Waiting, Reason

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• A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

  Veronica Roth

  Three, Months, Appearance

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Fleeting, Way, Tricks

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• It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.

  John Boyne

  Taken, Alive, Life Is

  John Boyne (2009). “The House of Special Purpose”, p.26, Random House

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