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• T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.16, Penguin

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• "And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

  Lauren Oliver

  Love You, Lips, Fingers

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eggs, Hens, Enough

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• I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Ideas, Self

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• I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Laughter, Love You

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• We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.

  Deb Caletti

  Should Have, People, New Life

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

  Anne Lamott

  Law, Toddler, Feels

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• Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.

  Gena Showalter

  Should Have, Red, Ruins

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• Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

  Edith Hamilton

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Honesty, Mean

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Floote, what is going on? Do they think I am contagious? Should I assure them I was born with a nose this size?

  Gail Carriger

  Thinking, Noses, Size

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Moving, Fighting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.10, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start by telling you that I love you? Or that the days I've spent with you have been the happiest in my life? Or that in the short time I've known you, I've come to believe that we were meant to be together? I could say all those things and all would be true, but as I reread them, all I can think is that I wish I were with you now, holding your hand and watching your elusive smile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Love You, Thinking

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• When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

  Confucius

  Wise, Spiritual, People

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• You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Brother, Lying

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin

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• "But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?

  Moderata Fonte

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".

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• It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner than later, in my opinion, the right woman can and should be leader of the free world. But you can't understand the male bonding rituals any more than men can understand why the vast majority of women are obsessed with shoes and other footwear.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Men, Shoes

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Chasing Fire”, p.331, Penguin

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• Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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• He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Years, Church, Gone

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.3, Penguin

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• I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

  Emily Bronte

  I Love Him, Night, May

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.531, Penguin

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• For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

  Isadora Duncan

  Able, Way, Satisfaction

  "My Life (Revised and Updated)".

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• What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning right back at me. "I think it would cause a riot." "Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head towards me. "Causing a riot is what I do best." Santangelo approaches before Griggs gets any closer and pulls him away. "Are you guys insane?" he says, irritated. "It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians," I say, throwing his own words back at him.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Hands, Ideas

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• We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Should Have, Yesterday, Wiser

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

  Suzanne Collins

  War, Lines, Crosses

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.824, Scholastic Inc.

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• Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

  "Life Togehter".

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