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• "She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Voice, Long

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

  Markus Zusak

  Sorry, Asking, Dies

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.145, RH Childrens Books

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• Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

  Giordano Bruno

  Fear, Atheism, Heresy

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Light, Two, Understanding

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

  Alan Moore

  Softball, Believe, Successful

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• A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Lines, Should, Prose

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.14, Penguin

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• Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.

  Jodi Picoult

  Too Late, Alex, Care

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• 
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse.
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  America, Vampire, Made

  "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter". Book by Seth Grahame-Smith, April 29, 2010.

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• If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I’ll—” I didn’t get to finish the threat. I think it was the word “naked,” though maybe it was “bed,” but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam

  Patricia Briggs

  Thinking, Waiting, Making Love

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.215, Penguin

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• Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

  Lionel Shriver

  Passion, Bricks, Lovers

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper

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• A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Paper, May

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

  Cassandra Clare

  Together, Fallen Angels, Strings

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1509, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Strange, Quiet, Unfinished

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• I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Mean, Knives, Two

  P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.111, Random House

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• How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

  David Levithan

  Giving, Trying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Fear

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.160, Multnomah

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• There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lucky, Firsts, Certain

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• Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sorry, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Years, Forever

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.327, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

  Pat Conroy

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

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• You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

  Gao Xingjian

  Memories, Trying, Filters

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.

  Ann Brashares

  Long, Comfort, World

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• Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Effective Listening, Waiting

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

  Félix J. Palma

  Order, Long, Merit

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• Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.

  Will Self

  Real, Mean, Writing

  "Will Self's rules for writers" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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