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• Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Men, World

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• My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

  John Green

  Bored, Routine, Pleasant

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.23, A&C Black

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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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• Do you go see her?" "No," I said, refusing to acknowledge that I'd just seen Lissa last night. "That's not my life anymore." "Right. Your life is all about dangerous vigilante missions." "You wouldn't understand anything that isn't drinking, smoking, or womanizing." He shook his head. "You're the only one I want, Rose." "Well, you can keep feeling that way, but you're going to have to keep waiting." "Much longer?" He asked me. "I don't know." Hope blossomed on Adrian's face. "That's the most optimistic thing you've told me so far.

  Richelle Mead

  Drinking, Optimistic, Night

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• Magnus wants to shout at me, don’t you, Magnus?” (Jace) “Yes,” Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275-

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Long, Enough

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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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• Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

  Jim Carroll

  Kids, Light, Branches

  Jim Carroll (1978). “The Basketball Diaries: Age 12-15”

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• Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

  Stephenie Meyer

  Optimistic, Nerves, Problem

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• I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

  John Green

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.54, Penguin

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• What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

  John Brunner

  People, Way, Authority

  John Brunner (2014). “The Jagged Orbit”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Want You Back, Sky, Wish

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• I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

  David Levithan

  Book, Together, Would Be

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Lanes, Lois Lane, I Can

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.312, Hachette UK

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• An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

  Randy Pausch

  Lions, Stills, Injured

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Love Someone

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• If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jealous, Heart, Madness

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• Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Military, Humor

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• Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

  Randy Pausch

  Educational, Kids, Parenting

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

  Robert Jordan

  Way

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.639, Macmillan

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• Even before the withdrawal sets in, you'll do anything to get that feeling back, because as long as it lasts, nothing's wrong. It doesn't matter if you forget something, or lose something. Or if you fail someone. Nothing's wrong and everything feels good, and you never want it to end.

  Rachel Vincent

  Long, Feel Good, Feelings

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper”, p.171, Harlequin

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• Yeah. She wants him back and has decided I'm in her way. But I have news for that little sleep-terrorist--it's going to take more than a couple of bad dreams to scare me off, so I hope she has something bigger up her sleeve.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dream, Couple, Sleep

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “My Soul to Steal”, p.81, Harlequin

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• Nice is good, but it's not enough. I want you back for real. I want to talk to you at lunch, instead of staring at you while you eat. I want to see the smile on your face and know I put it there. I want to hear your dad's voice get all low and pissed off, like it only does when I've stayed over too late.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dad, Real, Nice

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper”, p.505, Harlequin

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Optimistic

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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