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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
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“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
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“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
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“You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically.""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I...
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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
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“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!â€� I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasnâ...
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“Don't talk to me.""Why not?""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...”
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
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“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever m...
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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
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“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
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“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
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“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
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“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
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“He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""How very rude of him.""I told him I was."Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rat...
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“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
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“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
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“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
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“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
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“A good book is an event in my life.”
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“Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!”
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together.""Then why did you lie to...
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
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“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
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“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
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“Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poemAnd he called it "Chops" because that was the name of his dogAnd that's what it was all aboutAnd his teacher gave him an A and a gold starAnd his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his auntsThat was the year Father Tracy took all the kids t...
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“What day is it?â€� asked Pooh. “It’s today,â€� squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,â€� said Pooh.”
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“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
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“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose...
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“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
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“If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€�, she’s gonna call me “Point B.â€� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can...
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“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
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“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
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“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will ...
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“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso ...
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“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing th...
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“God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!”
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“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
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“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
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“You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,â€� said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.”
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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
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“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
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“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
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“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?""Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."...I started ...
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“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
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“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
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“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
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“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
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“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
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“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
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“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
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“Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.”
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“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
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“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
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“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.""Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
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“You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mea...
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“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
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“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
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“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
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“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
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“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
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“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
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“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
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“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
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“The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger wayWhere many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say”
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“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
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“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
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“I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
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“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
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“My library is an archive of longings.”
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“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
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“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
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“I cannot live without books.”
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“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
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“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
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“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
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