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• His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out. "Posture's wrong," Kat said. "He's still ... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world. "I feel so objectified. So ... cheap," Hale told them.

  Ally Carter

  Hands, Hot, Insult

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

  Karl Marx

  Winning, Uniting, Revolution

  "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.

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• People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Mad, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.346, Penguin

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• It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Spiritual, Brave New World, Becoming

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Struggle, Laughing, Joy

  Yahtzee Croshaw (2008). “Mogworld”, p.14, Dark Horse Comics

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• Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Beautiful, Hurt, Fades

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• Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

  Dean Koontz

  Beautiful, Grace, Eternity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.3, Bantam

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• It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Believe, Kids

  "Misty".

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• It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Needs, Foolish

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

  William P. Young

  Children, Greed, Would Be

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

  Wendell Berry

  New World

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

  Chaim Potok

  Father, Papa, Said

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.33, Anchor

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• One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Animal, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.185, Wordsworth Editions

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• They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

  Tove Jansson

  Hundred, Made, Concentration

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.4, Macmillan

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• What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

  Isaac Marion

  Trying

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

  Deb Caletti

  Numbers, Essentials, Good Things

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• People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, People, Ends

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• A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Eye, Warrior

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• My world is falling apart.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Fall, Falling Apart

  Laurie Faria Stolarz (2011). “White is for Magic”, p.7, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

  Gregory Maguire

  Evil, This World, Hard

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• He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Inability, Fragility

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• Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

  Tina Fey

  Character, Comedy, Librarian

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and everyone tells you you're very dramatic, very intense, and they see it as an affectation, but it´s actually just how you think. It really seems to you that the sky will fall if you are not personally holding it up. On the one hand, this is sheer arrogance; on the other hand, this is a very real fear. And it isn't that you ignore the potential repercussions of your actions. You don't think there are any. Because you are not even there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Evil, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.294, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

  Gerard Way

  Kings, Hate, Self

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