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• When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

  Erlend Loe

  Hands, Imagination, Trying

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mom, Men, Looks

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.

  Kirsten Miller

  Thinking, Car, Alarms

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.243, Penguin

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• What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

  Ray Bradbury

  Morning, Typewriters, Noon

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• Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?

  Susan Mallery

  Book, Grandmother, Doctors

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Sizzling”, p.71, Harlequin

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• Well...he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter?" Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him.

  J.R. Ward

  Males, Bingo, Coins

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1509, Penguin

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• And while I'm sure you feel that your particular mistake is extraordinarily big, insurmountable even, contrary to what you might think, these types of things can always be undone, and oftentimes aren't nearily as lethal as we think—or, should I say, as we allow them to be.

  Alyson Noel

  Mistake, Thinking, Might

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• We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.

  Tamora Pierce

  Years, Mind, Would Be

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Eye, Ideas

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• Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Giving, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.26, Macmillan

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• On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

  Umberto Eco

  Latin, Italian, Reflection

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Heart, Moments, Should

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “The Remains of the Day”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

  Douglas Adams

  Want, Enough, Should

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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• [E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

  Charles Taylor

  Unique, Voice, Mold

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Fickle, Affection

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1450, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks. "Do what comes naturally," I yelled back. "I don't know," he says. "This is a very unnatural thing.

  Neal Shusterman

  Should, Knows, Asks

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Patterns, Heat

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare (1821). “Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton”, p.36

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• A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that could snap my neck. A gun? It was so… well, easy. Should I be insulted? I didn’t know. Did it matter? I didn’t know that either. All I knew in that moment was that I was going to die, regardless.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Gun, Cheater

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

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• Should I tell him I'm not afraid of being hurt? I'm afraid of not being in control.

  Simone Elkeles

  Hurt, Should, Not Afraid

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you’re going to have to lie,” Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.

  Amanda Hocking

  Nice, Lying, Say Anything

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.530, Pan Macmillan

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• I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Neglect, Should

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end of a pew, his arms crossed. He was wearing a tuxedo as well. Just like any other guest. What was he doing here? He was supposed to be in Paris! He was supposed to be gone! He looked directly at Mimi. She heard his voice loud and clear in her head. Leave him. Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Being Yourself, Adventure, Voice

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• I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him. 'What's this?' 'A needle.' 'What should I do with it?' He'd walked right into it. Too easy. 'Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.' - Kate & Saiman

  Ilona Andrews

  Views, Use, Rooms

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.57, Penguin

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• He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. "I love you." That's why.

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Love You, Eye

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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