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• Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Thinking, Black

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• I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Suicide, Way, Kim

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• I don't sleep. All night long I'm wide awake, thinking, Secrets, secrets, secrets. There are secrets in my past no one needs to know. Secrets in my present that might kill Kim and Chip. I don't want to take my secrets with me when I go. When I pass through the light, i want to be free of everything and everyone.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Sleep, Past, Night

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• [to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Jesus, Believe, Men

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• I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering

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• If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

  David Levithan

  Lovable, Good Place, Ifs

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.157, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

  Chris Claremont

  Dream, Animal, Winning

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• What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Relief, Persons, Helpless

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• My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Taken, Drinking

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• All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Littles, Brilliant

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• A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Hurt, Fear

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

  Marian Keyes

  Love You, World, Matter

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• After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Army, Two, Mind

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• She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

  Ann Brashares

  Tired, Able, Wanted

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.383, Delacorte Press

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Something Beautiful, Bits

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

  John Green

  Loneliness, Waiting, Nervousness

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.295, A&C Black

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• I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.

  William T. Vollmann

  Real, Nice, Reading

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• Maybe I could do it." Darius shot him a dry look. "You want to try to get back into your house after the fact? Wellsie will stake you through the heart and leave you for the sun, my friend. Tohrment winced. "Good point" "And then she'll come looking for me." Both males shuttered.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, House, Brotherhood

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.22, Penguin

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• I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

  Haruki Murakami

  Men, Years, Long

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• You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Names, Mouths

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• Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Payback, Lays

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• How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Half, Comfort, Motto

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• Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

  Charles M. Schulz

  Confused, Thinking, Too Much

  "Peanuts". Comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, www.gocomics.com. September 9, 1959.

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• He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time.

  Michael Cunningham

  Art, Jobs, Thinking

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.12, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

  Michael Cunningham

  Men, Accepting, Streaks

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.115, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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