“I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more...”
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“We're not words, Henry, we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
“Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.”
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“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
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“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
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“A true friend should be able to speak truth to your face, but in your absence, serve as the ultimate defender”
“NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It...”
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
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“Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?”
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“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
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“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling som...”
“Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”
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“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
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“That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't en...”
“Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full...”
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“I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”
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“They're book addicts.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
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“Always take time to celebrate achievements whether great or small”
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“There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and f...”
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“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”
“Life has simply decided to open the floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns.”
“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance wit...”
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“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
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“The only difference between a human and an animal is in having inspiration.”
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“I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box...”
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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
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“Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for...”
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“The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.”
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“Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.”
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“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And...”
“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
“So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here”
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“You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.”
“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false att...”
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“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
“Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.”
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“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
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“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
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“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”
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“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
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“Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!”
“All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
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“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”