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• Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

  Veronica Roth

  Sleep, People

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• ....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mistake, Healthy, Brain

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?” “How could I not?” he said. “When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind’s eye always with a book in your hand.” He looked away from her as he said it, but not before she caught the slight flush on his cheekbones. He was so pale, he could never hide even the least blush, she thought — and was surprised how affectionate the thought was.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.471, Simon and Schuster

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• I just want to not be me.

  Ned Vizzini

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• And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Three, Letters, Firsts

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Mother, I want to see him fly!

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.371, Bantam

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• Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

  Cynthia Lord

  Life, Missing

  Cynthia Lord (2012). “Touch Blue”, p.132, Scholastic Inc.

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• Rose: "If you'd teach me to swear in Russian, I might have a new appreciation for it."Dimitri: "You swear too much already."Rose: "I just want to express myself."Dimitri: "Oh, Roza… You express yourself more than anyone else I know."- Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Frostbite)

  Richelle Mead

  Appreciation, Rose, Roza

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• I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

  James M. Barrie

  School, Solemn

  James M. Barrie (2011). “Peter Pan (小飛俠彼得潘)”, p.677, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Rose, Three

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.204, Penguin

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• If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got.

  Harper Lee

  Eye, Simple, Thinking

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• There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Voice, Who Cares, Neglect

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• If you want to learn anything, learn trust - nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help - learn trust. If you don't feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help - learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Giving, Helping

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• We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.

  Jim Thompson

  Mean, Kids, Fighting

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• Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Creative, Secret, Style

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• …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Energy, Genius, Talent

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Dance, Mean

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• It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

  Rachel Caine

  Boston, Talking, Touching You

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.243, Allison & Busby

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• If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.

  Isaac Marion

  Ifs

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.178, Macmillan

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• You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mean, Differences, Two

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• We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Napkins, Talent

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.397, e-artnow

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• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Wakes You, Necks

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• I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?

  Josh Lanyon

  Book, Heart, Gay

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• Marissa, " he mumbled, taking her hand. "Don't want to see you drink so much?" Wait, not really what he'd been going for. "Ah...don't you to see me drink so much...want." Whatever. God...he was so confused.~Butch

  J.R. Ward

  Confused, Hands, Waiting

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.292, Penguin

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