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• The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Funny Life, Games, Insecurity

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1994.

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• I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

  Terry McMillan

  Trying, Naked, Looks

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.11, Penguin

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• You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

  Terry McMillan

  Killing, Wanting To Die, Dies

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.87, Penguin

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• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

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• How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Bird, Strange

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.76, Faber & Faber

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• Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

  Federico Fellini

  Ignorance, Willful Ignorance, Knows

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• Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. "Not today.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Commitment, Chocolate

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Espresso, Guy

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• Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Waiting, Civilized

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.49, Macmillan

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• I was so worried that you wouldn’t want to know me once you found out.” I signed, relief flooding through me. “Are you kidding me?” Xavier reached out and curled a lock of my hair around his finger. “Surely I’ve got to be the luckiest guy in the world.” “How do you figure that?” “Isn’t it obvious? I’ve got my own little piece of Heaven right here.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Hair, Guy, Heaven

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• I want some time without you organic life forms.

  Rick Riordan

  Form, Without You, Organic Life

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• FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

  Taylor Swift

  Fighting, Getting Back Up, Fearless

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• You;re colling me, So i fugure you must not hate me anymore. dOES THIS MEAN YOU WANNA GO OUT? iI'm free tonight. I mean , I have plans, but i can break them. For you. Brandon, you kidnapped me. And then you made the only person I'll ever love in my life hate me. I completely despise you. So..., I take that as a no, you do not want to go out with me tonight.

  Meg Cabot

  Hate, Mean, Doe

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• Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

  Richelle Mead

  Fire, Rose, Burning

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.231, Penguin

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• The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

  Cassandra Clare

  Kitchen, Gone, Tables

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• Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Wind, Needs

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• 6. You want to help him.

  Bisco Hatori

  Helping

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• You know what you like, you know what you want. So all you have to do is find something work related to that stuff

  Novala Takemoto

  Stuff, Like You, Work Related

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• I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

  Margaret Atwood

  Complicated, Heathcliff, Linton

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

  Ken Follett

  Moving, Odd Things, Things To Do

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.408, Penguin

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• What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Certain, Certainty

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• How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? ~Razo

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Voice, Missing

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.74, A&C Black

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• No one wants to hear you speak, Bradie Boy," Kitten said in that scratchy voice of hers. "Like that's ever stopped me. I can't believe we've got a bird and a cat in the car." Bradley chuckled. "I guess that makes me animal control. Nice." "I'm a Teran," Kitten said tightly, "not a cat. And if I hear you call me a cat one more time, I'll scratch your eyes out. Understand?" "Oh, I understand. I just don't think you'll like what I'm understanding, which is that you can't wait to get your hands on me.

  Gena Showalter

  Nice, Believe, Cat

  Gena Showalter (2007). “Red Handed”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

  Emma Thompson

  Blue, Sky, Looks

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