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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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• Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

  D. J. MacHale

  Scare, Why Not, Kind

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “The Black”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

  Charles Bukowski

  Hands, Understanding, Novelists

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• If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

  Francine Pascal

  Ready, Mess With Me, Ifs

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• I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

  Julia Quinn

  Morning, Love You, Night

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• There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

  Mark Epstein

  Spiritual, Addiction, Soul

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• Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fun, War, Fighting

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• I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Suffering, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.227, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

  Ann Voskamp

  Different, Stories, Knows

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• All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Ideas, Parent

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Suicidal, Thinking

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• You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Happiness, Said, Courses

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.122, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said. He stuck out his hand. 'Come on, slugger. Walk with me. You know you want to.' And the thing was, despite everything I knew-that it was a mistake, that he was different from the others-I did. How he knew that, I had no idea. But I got up and did it anyway.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mistake, Hands, Ideas

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• I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

  Lynsay Sands

  Fall, Necks, Stairs

  Lynsay Sands (2012). “Vampires are Forever: An Argeneau Vampire Novel”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

  Nelson DeMille

  Names, Use, Maidens

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• A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Odds, Advice

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Writing, Clothes

  "The Real Thing". Book by Tom Stoppard, November 16, 1982.

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• the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Names, Kind

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.55, Zebra Books

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• Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.

  Christine Feehan

  Mother, Children, Night

  Christine Feehan (2003). “Shadow Game”, p.118, Penguin

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• Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

  Ilona Andrews

  Next, Necks, Break

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.142, Penguin

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• When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Powerful, Cities

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• I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

  Anthony Hope

  Money, Income, Knows

  Anthony Hope (2016). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

  Neal Shusterman

  War, Lying, Believe

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• Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Battle, Felt

  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.821, Bantam

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• I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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