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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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• 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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• 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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• ...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Promise, Would Be

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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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• Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Seduction

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.280, Macmillan

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• When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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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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• ...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

  Sarah Caudwell

  Fiction, Reader, Seems

  Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.18, Dell

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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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• So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Who I Am, Dust

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

  Agatha Christie

  Tired, Reality, Important

  "5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection".

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• Chloe? It's me." After a pause, he added, "Derek," like I could mistake that deep rumble for anyone else, like I could mistake that little part of me that perked up like an eager puppy saying, "It's him. Quick! Go see what he wants." God, how had I been so blind? It seemed so obvious now.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mistake, Chloe, Littles

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dust, Mad, Tears

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• We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mistake, Parent, Way

  J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.76, Vintage

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• Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hate, People, Wish

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• If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

  Roberto Bolano

  Expectations, What You Want, Ifs

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• Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we’re aware of the consequences which will follow if we don’t.

  Ilona Andrews

  Children, Self, Discipline

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• I don’t want to be like her, like Vivian. I don’t want to hurt anyone. Am I going to hurt people?” “No one can make you do that, child. You are caught between two worlds, much like my own Lend. You will want the fire, you will want to be filled. It is your nature. I hope you do not fall, but she is much stronger than you are.” She smiled at me, reaching out as though she would wipe away my tears. “Cling to what is good in your life. Be good to my son.

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Children, Fall

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• The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Humble, Men

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• now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?

  Hayley Williams

  Pain, Heart, Simple

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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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