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• Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

  David Levithan

  Rap, Sheets

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• When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Rivers, Focus

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• I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

  Shannon Hale

  Book, Night, Tragedy

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• The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

  George R. R. Martin

  Love, Thrones, Lad

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.500, Bantam

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• I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Wall, Air, Bird

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.7, Penguin

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• Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.

  David Gemmell

  Taken, Men, Years

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• I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Oil And Water, Years

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• It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.

  Anna Godbersen

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Giving, Purpose

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• A burnt finger remember the fire.

  Alice Walker

  Fire, Fingers

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Hands, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.

  David Levithan

  Beautiful, Voice, Tunes

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.83, Egmont UK

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• Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

  Julia Child

  Friendship, Careers, People

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.243, Anchor

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• Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

  Robert Jordan

  Meals, Tonight, May

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.494, Macmillan

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• Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Children, Wall

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• Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?" "No." I did. "You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse." The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Kissing, Fire, Light

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Dream, Fun, Lying

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• So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

  John Green

  Boys, Secret, Rooms

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.67, Penguin

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• Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.

  Richard Yates

  Jobs, Home, Intelligent

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• I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Eye, Past

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.82, Virginia Woolf

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• The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Plato, Eye, Vision

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.123, Virginia Woolf

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• And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

  John Green

  Moral Of The Story, Stories, Done

  John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late." I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number.

  James Patterson

  Children, Eye, Fate

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• ‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Singers, Remains

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

  Alan Moore

  Voice, People, Generations

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