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• I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Same Mistakes

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Leaving, Tomorrow, Figures

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

  Gayle Forman

  Fighting, Might, If I Stay

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.87, Penguin

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• Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke." Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?" "Not particularly." "Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Son, Trying

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• Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?" "Not really," said Simon. "Magnus is wearing lederhosen." "And yet, still no.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sitting, Hey, Berlin

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• It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Firsts, Found, First Time

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to me. Hunter Seth Haskins, her firstborn son. I've been chocking that down for nineteen years. Why did she go on her mindless way, leaving me spinning in a whirlwind of her dust?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Son, Dust, Years

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.1031, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

  Gayle Forman

  Tears, Cry, Where She Went

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.73, Penguin

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• It would’ve been easier to die. It’s not that I want to be dead now. I don’t. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn’t help but think that it would’ve been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Promise, Sacred

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

  Gayle Forman

  Persons

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.119, Penguin

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• You're all he ever wants.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• I glanced up at Zay, then walked over to stand next to him. "You look good with a baby in your arms," he murmured. I took his hand, careful with his fingers that were still wrapped in tape. "Don't get your hopes up, Jones. I'm not the settling-down type." "Want to bet on that?" he asked. "Sure." I made a fist; so did he. We pumped three times. I threw paper. Zayvion threw scissors. I'd lost. Startled, I looked up at him. "Two out of three?" Zay grinned. So did I.

  Devon Monk

  Baby, Hands, Two

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• If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Mean, Cities

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1626, Simon and Schuster

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• I want us to be... what is your word? Friends." "Psychotic rapists don't have friends." "I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered." (Mac & V'lane)

  Karen Marie Moning

  Psychotic, Macs, Lanes

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• I want you to break the spell. Finish it off.” "What do you mean?” "The spell you did on me and Dimitri.” "That spell is done. It burned itself out.” I shook my head. "No. I keep thinking about him. I keep wanting to…” He smiled knowingly when I didn't finish. "My dear, that was already there, long before I set that up.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.170, Penguin

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• And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Men, Views, Compatible

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• If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Needs, Demand, Might

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• Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. “I can’t go back. Not yet. I can’t leave.” And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. “You don’t have to,” she said, rocking me. “You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, not anymore.” And I cried.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lying, Hair, Arms

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• A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

  Deb Caletti

  Insecure, Giving, Brave

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• Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

  Rachel Caine

  Ice Cream, Hands, Tanks

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• I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy." "Wow, you're wearing each other's clothes now. That's, like, best friend stuff." "Feeling left out?" said Kyle. "I suppose you want to borrow a black T-shirt too." "As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation." Eric poked his head through the curtain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Long, Feelings

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• I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Dark, World

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic UK

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• We want more than there is.

  Jonathan Goldstein

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• I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Party, Mean, Talking

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• If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Community, Needs

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.wired.com. 2000.

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