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• Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

  Nicholas Sparks

  Procrastination, Thinking, Experts

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• I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Water, Vampire

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• Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005

  Stephen Colbert

  Ohio, Two, People

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• He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fire, Ice, Fever

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• No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Mother, Wish

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• You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Blood, My Family

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just confused. I can't read your signals. One moment you're hot, the next you're cold. You tell me you want me, you tell me you don't. If you picked one, that'd be fine, but you keep making me think one thing and then you end up going in a completely different direction. Not just now—all the time.

  Richelle Mead

  Confused, Thinking, Hot

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!

  Rick Riordan

  Luxury, Giving, Chocolate

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• I don’t want to lose my memories. Don’t make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.

  Nalini Singh

  Memories, Shadow, Forget

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.146, Penguin

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• So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

  Christopher Moore

  Brother, Juice, Hey

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.334, Hachette UK

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• when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Block, Night

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• I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Micah, Enjoy, Know How

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2006). “Micah: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Anthony grinned at her, knowing that would probably infuriate her all the more. "My eyes have been a-wandering, as you put it, for the last nineteen years. Give them a rest, Roslynn. They settled on you and don't want to move on.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Moving, Eye, Years

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• I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

  Ayn Rand

  Want Me, Feels, Ifs

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.287, Hamilton Books

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• But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

  Margaret Atwood

  Names, Darkness, Use

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.261, Anchor

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• You must do whatever you think is best. But I know one thing. Nothing meant more to Graystripe than your friendship and his Clan. Even when he was in RiverClan, he longed to go home. He would want to see ThunderClan as strong as it could possibly be, even if that meant accepting that he's not coming back.

  Erin Hunter

  Strong, Home, Thinking

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• Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Thinking, Bully

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• Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Order, Law

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• ...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna be me, then I would have it be a man who loves you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Love You, Men, Doe

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• Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Ifs

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• But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Needs, Left

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.151, Dell

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• I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Feelings, Forget

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• I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Forever, Everyday

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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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