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• Good. Or instead, what if I just told you that I love you?” Payton gazed into his eyes. “What would you say, J. D. Jameson, if I told you that?” J.D. smiled. He touched his forehead to Payton’s, closed his eyes, and answered her with one word. “Finally.

  Julie James

  Love You, Eye, Foreheads

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.246, Penguin

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• You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today.

  Billy Graham

  Safety, Ark, Too Late

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• But what if it were you? What if you were stuffed in a human body and let loose on this planet only to find yourself lost among your own kind? What if you were such a good person that you tried to save the life that you'd taken that you almost died trying to get her back to her family? What if you then found yourself surrounded by violent aliens who hated you and tried to hurt you and tried to murder you over and over again? What if you just kept doing whatever you could to save and heal people despite that? Wouldn't you deserve a life too? Wouldn't you have earned that much?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Taken, People

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• What if she never remembers?" "Then you better make her fall in love with you, again." "How did I do it the first time?" "You let her in.

  Abbi Glines

  Falling In Love, Love You, Firsts

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• What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Giving, Littles

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1260, Penguin UK

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• What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?

  David Foster Wallace

  Choices, Temples, Sometimes

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

  Neal Shusterman

  Memories, People, Sick

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more nervous… He had to be the only man alive who could pull off intimidating in his tighty-whities. God, what if all that massive hotness was commando?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Trying, Hot

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.475, Macmillan

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• In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Reality, Order, People

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• I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?

  Veronica Roth

  Personality, Discarded, Knows

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• What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.

  Lynda Barry

  Mother, Heart, Feet

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes it's good to not be able to buy everything, because then it gives you something to look forward to. That's why you shouldn't give kids too much - then they have nothing to look forward to. It's a recipe for disaster. What if you have a daughter and you give her everything and then she marries someone who can't give her everything? A recipe for disaster.

  Fredric Brandt

  Daughter, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

  Warren Ellis

  Memories, Left, Ifs

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• When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what if he lied? What do you mean? Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap. There is the window. Leap. What do you want? The world.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mean, Boys, Men

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• But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Simulacrum, Circuits

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• What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

  Debbie Ford

  Lying, Heart, Keys

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• What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

  Seth Godin

  Bigger, Ifs

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• What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

  Max Lucado

  Morning, Yesterday, Ifs

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2011

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• The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

  Maria Shriver

  Trying, Wonder, Bigs

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• I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Hard Times, People, Want

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• What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss.

  Robert Breault

  Parallel Universe, Parallels, Ifs

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, School

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• What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate... There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.

  Oren Lyons

  Mean, People, May

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

  Jeanne Woodford

  Children, Men, Abuse

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• Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

  Dave Barry

  Numbers, Kind, Computer

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.43, Rodale

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