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• I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.

  Markus Zusak

  Strong, Struggle, Mouths

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.288, Scholastic Inc.

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• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teacher, Powerful, People

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dream, Sweat, Secret

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• I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

  Tamora Pierce

  Class, Two, People

  Tamora Pierce (2010). “Melting Stones”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Glasses, Rivers

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

  Fannie Flagg

  Religious, Giving, Comfort

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.60, Random House

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• I'll just be your brother from now on." he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. "That's what you wanted, isn't it?" It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. "Yes," she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. "That's what I wanted.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Ashes”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

  Stephen King

  Past, Sometimes, Reach Out

  Stephen King (2002). “From a Buick 8”, Scribner

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• What I told you before is still true. I want to know that when you're with me, it's because you want to be, not because you have to be.

  Amanda Hocking

  Stills, Knows

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Torn”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.263, Hachette UK

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• Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore."... He turned from me with a sigh. "I need a drink."... "Oh, good. That'll fix everything. I'm glad in a world gone mad, you've still got your old standbys."... "What do you expect me to do?" he asked. "You could... You could... Well, now that you're here, you could help us. Plus, this guy we're meeting. He's another spirit user."... "Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back. " He turned away again, and I heard him mutter, "I need two drinks."

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Girlfriend, Reality

  "Spirit Bound". Book by Richelle Mead, May 18, 2010.

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• Come on! Don't hold back," Christian said. "I'm not, " Lissa protested. "You are too! I've seen you knock on a door harder than you're hitting me. " "That's a ridiculous metaphor. " "And, " he added, "you aren't aiming for my face. " "I don't want to leave a mark!" "Well, at the rate we're going, there's no danger of that, " he muttered

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Doors, Hitting

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• I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

  H. Beam Piper

  Dark, Night, Noise

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• Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Giving, Bullshit, Needs

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• If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Running, Hate, Eye

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• I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wrong... but even when you're pissing me off, when you're reminding me of pain and despair and torture-it's there, the wanting. I'm tired of fighting it. I fight so many things, all the time, every day. I don't want to fight this. Not anymore.

  Cate Tiernan

  Pain, Tired, Fighting

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• I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

  Suzanne Collins

  Giving, Tears, Target

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don't hide behind those little girl slaps.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Littles, Touch Me

  Lisa McMann (2011). “Cryer's Cross (Multimedia eBook Edition with Video)”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you. It dangles something sparkly before you, shimmering like that water patch on the road up ahead. You will drive until you find it, the treasure, the thing you most desire. You will never find it. Madness may mock you so long you will die of the search. Or it will tire of you, turn its back, oblivious as you go flying. The car is beside you, smoking, belly-up, still spinning its wheels.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Car, Long, Water

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her.

  Christine Feehan

  Pain, Eye, Dark

  Christine Feehan (2008). “Turbulent Sea”, p.145, Penguin

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• I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the slow-rolling swell of the sea. I have watched old soldiers with hearts like leather grow teary-eyed at their king's colors stretched against the wind. Listen to me: these men know nothing of love. You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kings, Lying, Love You

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.56, Penguin

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• All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

  Dean Koontz

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  Dean Koontz (2010). “What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel”, p.70, Bantam

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• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

  William Nicholson

  Selfish, Here I Am, People

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• The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Cutting, Darkness

  Natalie Goldberg (2008). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

  Charles Portis

  Done, True Grit, Ifs

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.90, A&C Black

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