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• Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

  Andy Andrews

  Men, Air, Justice

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• There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

  Adam Rex

  Mom, Rainy Day, Eggs

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.8, A&C Black

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• It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

  Bell Hooks

  White, People, Focus

  "Ain't I a Woman?". Book by Gloria Jean Watkins, 1981.

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• What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Independent, Men, Choices

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• Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Space, Share, Said

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their actions. And you have to listen. I don't know what will happen with your lady friend. I think she's a nice person, and I hope you get what you want. But do me a favor: Listen, and don't ignore what you hear.

  Justin Halpern

  Nice, Thinking, Always Trying

  "Sh*t My Dad Says". Book by Justin Halpern, May 4, 2010.

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• Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, And Love, Pieces

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Alethea Kontis (2007). “The Dark-Hunter Companion”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

  Arundhati Roy

  Loner, Feels, I Can

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• Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks up the smallest charcoal stick from my set. He writes something. He passes it over to me. It says: Time will tell. “And while you’re waiting,” he says, “don’t settle for anything less than what you really want.

  Susane Colasanti

  Rip, Writing, Waiting

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• Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're standing close. Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Clothes, Swamps, Way

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.19, Delacorte Press

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• That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—

  Sarah Dessen

  Party, Voice, Perfect

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.139, Penguin

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• The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.

  Steven Pinker

  Mother, Sleep, Boys

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.460, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

  David Levithan

  Knowing Who You Are, Trying, No Excuses

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.147, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the way. It hovers over me at odd moments. And then it's gone. I feel like I'm always on the brink of something that never arrives. I want to either have it or be free of it.

  Michael Cunningham

  Dream, Gone, Way

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• Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

  Charles Yu

  Littles, Enjoy, Accommodate

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.233, Vintage

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• Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look at him. "And listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. You are going to marry me before this week is out. Since you have conveniently run off to Scotland, we don't need a special license. You're just lucky I don't haul you off to a church right this instant. Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweeetheart, you're getting yourself a new name.

  Julia Quinn

  Running, Flower, Hands

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Nov 20, 2014

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• I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

  Ewan McGregor

  Good Movie, Hollywood

  "Naked talent" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

  Ernst Junger

  Law, Trying, Criminals

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• Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Justice, Records

  "Men in Black". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 1, 2005.

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• But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.

  P. C. Cast

  Stuff, Sometimes

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.281, Macmillan

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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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• 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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