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• You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

  Laurie R. King

  Female, Fool, Helping

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.112, Macmillan

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• If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Would Be, Gone

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Girl, Philosophical, Fighting

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• I miss him, my lady.” “Well, he is now living adjacent. You can hardly miss him all that much.” “True. But we are no longer compatible—I am a werewolf; he is a vampire.” “So?” “So we cannot dance the same dance we used to.” Biffy was so sweet when he tried to be circumspect. Alexia shook her head at him. “Biffy, and I mean this in the kindest way possible: then you should change the music.” “Very good, my lady.

  Gail Carriger

  Sweet, Mean, Missing

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Philosophy, Loss

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.134, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thank you, Dain," she said. "I should like that very much. I've never seen a proper wrestling match before." "I daresay it will be a novel experience all round," he said, gravely eyeing her up and down. "I can't wait to see Sherburne's face when I arrive with my lady wife in tow." "There, you see?" she said, unoffended. "I told you there were other benefits to having a wife. I can come in very handy when you wish to shock your friends.

  Loretta Chase

  Wrestling, Wife, Waiting

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• Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Pain, Long Ago, Broken

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• The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Hands, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.

  Sarah Dessen

  Should Have, Hot, Ears

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.102, Penguin

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• He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

  Walter Isaacson

  Attitude, Thinking, Hands

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• Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Skills, Slavery

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She was to strong for me.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Strong, Tired, Fighting

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• Summerset, don't you ever sleep?" "It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--" Roarke dropped his briefcase, grabbed Summerset by the lapels. "Has she been hurt? Where is she?" "A nightmare. She was screaming." Summerset lost his usual composure and dragged a hand over his hair. "She won't cooperate. I was about to call your doctor. I left her in her private suite." As Roarke pushed him aside, Summerset grabbed his arm. "Roarke, you should have told me what had been done to her." Roarke merely shook his head and kept going. "I'll take care of her.

  Nora Roberts

  Hurt, Sleep, Doctors

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.603, Penguin

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• We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Indulge In, Challenges

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• People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

  Marcel Proust

  Clever, Being In Love, Men

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Should haves lead to death

  Maria V. Snyder

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.66, Harlequin

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• A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

  Thomas Hardy

  Years, Long, Extinction

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Return of the Native”, p.80, Thomas Hardy

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• If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Betrayal, Moving, Optimistic

  Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.

  William Goldman

  Love You, Want, Ells

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Mother, People, Important

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Secret Garden”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Men, Naked

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• Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Country, Airports

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doubt, Genius, Politically Correct

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

  Jodi Picoult

  Men, Guy, Band

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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