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• Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.

  Albert Pike

  Memories, Together, And Love

  Albert Pike, “Re-Union”

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• I’ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then I’d ever known before “You’ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality I’ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of heaven

  Claudia Gray

  Ideas, Two, Light

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• Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

  Simon R. Green

  Sometimes, Humour

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Agents Of Light And Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Night, People

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 20, 2017

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• I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Stupid, Years, Gentleman

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• Yeah, a lot more than he likes you," said Oh. It didn't look like Milo appreciated the joke very much. "That's debatable," said Milo. "Is not," said Oh. She leaned in and put her pink cast against my cheek, kissing me quickly on the lips. "That's incredibly unfair. If we were gay you'd be up a creek without a paddle. You wouldn't even be in the game." "He's right, you know," I said. "Aw. You guys are having a bromance. That's really cute.

  Patrick Carman

  Cute, Gay, Kissing

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• Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Blessed, White

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.946, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.

  John Irving

  Moving, Mean, Expression

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• Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.

  Lauren Kate

  Thinking, Perfect, Use

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.27, Delacorte Press

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• I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.

  Lewis Carroll

  Clock, Beats, Spokes

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• But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?

  Malorie Blackman

  Book, Like Love, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Two, World, Remember

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.128, 谷月社

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• Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And ... well ... I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us ... I want you to be happy

  Richelle Mead

  Hate, Eye, Fighting

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.305, Penguin

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• You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Bows, Logic, Poet

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• Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heroic, Mercy, Tick

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• One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.

  Markus Zusak

  Kissing, Dying, One Day

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.61, RH Childrens Books

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• Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Song, Issues, Chance

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Moments, Detachment

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Thinking, Doe, World

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• I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

  Mary Balogh

  Wish, Doe, Compromise

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• Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.

  Mary Balogh

  Morning, Forever, Betrayed

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.224, Delacorte Press

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• I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

  Charles Portis

  People, Substance, Faces

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.244, A&C Black

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• Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.

  Sarah MacLean

  Army, Your Side, Oxford

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• You should shower," I said. "Right now." "I smell that bad?" (Patch) Actually, he smelled that good.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Smell, Should, Patches

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• Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.

  Rachel Caine

  Funeral, Zombie, Hey

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