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Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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Nothing hurts you unless you let it.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4))
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Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged.
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Victoria Aveyard (Cruel Crown (Red Queen, #0.1-0.2))
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Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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Words can lie. See beyond them.
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Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen (Red Queen, #1))
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The most important words a man can say are, "I will do better.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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The morning was full of sunlight and hope.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
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I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4))
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That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.
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Brandon Sanderson (The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3))
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Dance it off.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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I wold never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness.
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Victoria Aveyard (War Storm (Red Queen, #4))
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Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (All In (The Naturals, #3))
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Fear can be a good thing. Fear doesn't let you forget.
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Victoria Aveyard (King's Cage (Red Queen, #3))
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Love wasn't about being right or wrong, but about standing up and helping when your partner's back was bowed.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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Some see a weed; some see a flower. Perspective.
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Kiera Cass (The Crown (The Selection, #5))
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Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.
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Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
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You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.
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Margaret Atwood (The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2))
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The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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She wanted to be herself at all costs.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
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Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.
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Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
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She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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I earned those scars. I'm keeping them.
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Aimee Carter (Queen (The Blackcoat Rebellion, #3))
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We certainly are an odd bunch."
"Yes. Seven people. Odd.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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I had a splinter once," Shallan noted. "It eventually got out of hand.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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It is always the gentle ones I fear for the most, those willing to bare their hearts, who grieve for others and feel happy for othersβ happiness.
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Tracy Deonn (Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1))
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You can't ever have my books.
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Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
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She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
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Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
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You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.
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Agatha Christie (Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18))
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She had resolved to never take another step backward.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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I never leave the house with just one knife. Seriously. Do I look like a one-knife kind of girl?
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Ally Carter (Not If I Save You First)
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Thatβs the thing about evil. You donβt need to be it to do it. It doesnβt have to consume all of you. It can be small. All you have to do is let it exist.
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Marie Lu (Steelstriker (Skyhunter, #2))
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Risk is part of the game.
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Victoria Aveyard (Cruel Crown (Red Queen, #0.1-0.2))
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Monsters are more dangerous when they're afraid.
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Victoria Aveyard (King's Cage (Red Queen, #3))
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When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.
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John Sandford (Outrage (The Singular Menace, #2))
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But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.
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Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
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I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.
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Margaret Atwood (The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2))
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If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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Sometimes a crime is an act of heroism.
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Tracy Deonn (Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1))
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Hope is a delicate thing.
A dangerous thing.
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Ally Carter (Take the Key and Lock Her Up (Embassy Row, #3))
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Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4))
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
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Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
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The truth costs.
Lies cost more.
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Jennifer Donnelly (These Shallow Graves)
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He had a dream and it shot him.
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Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
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But sometimes you cope by wasting time, yes?
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Tracy Deonn (Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1))
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Because my mother taught me that, in spite of everything, I must choose goodness.
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Tracy Deonn (Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1))
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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
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Robert H. Schuller
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Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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Apparently she's got revenge on her mind, and it's really annoying when people try to talk at you while you're feeling murderish.
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Amie Kaufman (Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2))
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Home is the people who love you.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4))
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I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.
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Pittacus Lore (The Fate of Ten (Lorien Legacies, #6))
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He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.
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Gail Carriger (Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4))
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After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
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Gail Carriger (Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4))
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You can't pray a lie--I found that out.
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Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
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I do not fear pain.
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Victoria Aveyard (Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2))
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He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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None of them knew the color of the sky.
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Stephen Crane (Open Boat (Creative Short Stories))
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Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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I realized death isn't the worst thing. It's the last thing. And endings are hard, that's all.
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Aimee Carter (Queen (The Blackcoat Rebellion, #3))
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I'm so storming clever that half the time, even I can't follow what I'm talking about.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
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Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
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Happiness is important. Fun is everything.
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Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
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The truth is usually inappropriate.
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Jennifer Donnelly (These Shallow Graves)
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I'm not crazy; I'm curious.
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Jennifer Donnelly (These Shallow Graves)
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The distance is nothing, when one has a motive.
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Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
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THE EVENTS IN THIS BOOK ARE REAL.
NAMES ANS PLACES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE LORIEN, WHO REMAIN IN HIDING.
OTHER CIVILIZATIONS DO EXIST.
SOME OF THEM SEEK TO DESTROY YOU.
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Pittacus Lore (The Fate of Ten (Lorien Legacies, #6))
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Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
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Gail Carriger (Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4))
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It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.
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Gail Carriger (Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4))
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I am often told I defy expectations.
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Amie Kaufman (Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2))
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But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.
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Ally Carter (See How They Run (Embassy Row, #2))
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Itβs college,β Charlotte says with a shrug. ββSmart but a bad influenceβ describes like half the student body.
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Tracy Deonn (Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1))
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The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?
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Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)
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Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.
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Jen Calonita (There's No Place Like Home (Secrets of My Hollywood Life, #6))
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We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.
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Gail Carriger (Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4))
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She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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You lose track of time when you're deep in conservation with an otherworldly being made of pure Loric energy.
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Pittacus Lore (The Fate of Ten (Lorien Legacies, #6))
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Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot.
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Gail Carriger (Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4))
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me.
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Ally Carter (Not If I Save You First)
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The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.
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Brandon Sanderson (Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3))
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Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a person into someone who is, by most accounts, evil.
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Kiera Cass (Happily Ever After (The Selection, #0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3))
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
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Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
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This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.
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Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
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The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant, was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)