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• He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good." (James Frey, pg.38)

  James Frey

  Simple, Long, Laughing

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• Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

  Margaret Atwood

  Betrayal, Silence, Darkness

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• Thinking of you where ever you are- We pray for our sorrows to end and hope that our hearts will blend now I will step forward to realize this wish- And who knows starting a new journey may not be so hard or maybe it's already begun- There are many worlds but they share the same sky one sky one destiny-

  Shiro Amano

  Thinking Of You, Heart, Journey

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• Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Blood, Nurse

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• Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Two, Horizon

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• Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

  Shania Twain

  Fun, Creativity, Yesterday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

  Colin Quinn

  Crazy, Humanity, Who We Are

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• I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

  Rebecca Loos

  People, Tvs, Steps

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• Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Book, Fighting, Voice

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• When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Divine Guidance

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• She is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward, opens the blanket, envelops me within it and within her and within myself. She kisses my cheek, the one not torn, she wraps me and she holds me. Her arms are thin but strong. She whispers in my ear, "I'm glad you're here.

  James Frey

  Strong, Kissing, Pale Skin

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.375, Anchor

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• No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

  Amar Bose

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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• Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. “Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.” “Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, June, Hands

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• Cecy, what are you doing here?" She took a step forward, then paused on the threshold, glancing down at her bare feet. “I could ask of you the same.” “I like to talk to the horses at night. They make good company. And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Night, Feet

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Qhuinn took a step forward, with the intention of stepping in, in the event the Brother locked hands on the SOB’s skinny neck: Someone should probably catch the head before it bounced all over their hosts’ rugs. And the deadweight of the body. Seemed only hospitable.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Hands, Events

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.405, Hachette UK

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• They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Choices, Fiction

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• We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

  Lauren Oliver

  Choices, Steps, Requiem

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• Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

  Patrick Ness

  Steps, Poet

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• Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Achievement, Steps, Sincerity

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• Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt breath and looked at Kylie. She nodded at him as if giving him the lead. He looked back at Holiday and, in a deep voice, said, "Kylie has something to tell you." Kylie's mouth fell open and right then she knew it was official. Men sucked at verbal communication especially where anything emotional was concerned.

  C.C. Hunter

  Communication, Holiday, Eye

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• No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Steps

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air. . .and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

  Philip Pullman

  Night, Air, Leaving

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• As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Roles, Steps, Muhammad

  "The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2004.

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• The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

  Nora Ephron

  Hurt, Steps

  "Nora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation". www.mindingthecampus.org. 1996.

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• If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a few nations begin actually making operational a verification system we can all depend upon and push to bring all into such a system, we will all benefit.

  Jonathan Granoff

  Humanity, Dawn, Benefits

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