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1fc6961
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"Sebastian just smiled. "I could hear your heart beating," he said softly. "When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?" "That you seem to be dating my dad?" Jace shrugged. "You're a little young for him, to be honest." "What?" For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted."
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jace-wayland
realization
sarcasm
sebastian
valentine-morgenstern
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Cassandra Clare |
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87ce474
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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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realization
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Iris Murdoch |
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3be9c0c
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People aren't always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can't just meet someone and expect them to be everything you're looking for and then be angry when they're not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It's foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.
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realization
second-chances
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Chloe Rattray |
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8ee9b22
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Your inner strength is your outer foundation
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inspirational
love
motivation
peace
personal-development
personal-growth
quotes
realization
self
self-discovery
self-help
spiritual-growth
upliftment
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Allan Rufus |
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5176896
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I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.
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historical-romance
love
realization
you-and-me-babe
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Julie Garwood |
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806f656
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It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
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breakups
inspirational
inspirational-love
men-and-women
realization
relationships
sex
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Sue Grafton |
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bb32d39
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He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
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realization
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Ray Bradbury |
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4f2fc15
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...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.
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realization
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Edith Wharton |
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fbe2723
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We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
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looking-back
mundane-life
realization
truth
wrapped-up
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Mitch Albom |
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cb21c1d
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At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.
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realization
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David James Duncan |
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5edd0cd
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
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civilization
consequences
environment
foresight
insight
isolation
realization
rich
wealthy
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Jared Diamond |
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a8449f4
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Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day--while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
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dr-manhatan
realization
tired
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Alan Moore |
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63c72df
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I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...
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feeling-alive
fighting-for-self
realization
self-worth
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Richard Wright |
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ccc13d9
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I have seen myself backward.
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realization
self-awareness
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Philip K. Dick |
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96fcc6e
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"Gillette--The best a man can get." I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving world media standing by. Instead, I was just another show-business mediocrity. A drunk who shat his pants and ran for help. My life had been careless and selfish. Pleasure in the moment was my only thought, my solitary motivation. I had disappointed whoever had been foolish enough to love me, and left them scarred. I was a very long way from being the best a man can get."
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contemplation
love
realization
rehab
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Craig Ferguson |
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e142c18
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"Odysseus draped the towel over his shoulders and stretched his back. "You remember practicing with wooden swords? All the moves, the blocks, the counters, getting your footwork right, learning how to be in balance always?" "Of course you were a hard master." "And you recall the first time you went into a real fight, with blood being shed and the fear of death in the air?" "I do" "The moves are the same, but the difference is wider than the Great Green. Love is like that, Helikaon. You can spend time with a whore and laugh and know great pleasure. But when love strikes--- ah, the difference is awesome. You will find more joy in the touch of a hand or the sight of a smile than you could ever experience in a hundred nights of passion with anyone else. The sky will be more blue, the sun more bright. Ah, I am missing my Penelope tonight"
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reality
realization
true-love
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David Gemmell |
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4ae92b2
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There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the most inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.
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life
reality
realization
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Nicholas Sparks |
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211ec65
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Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!
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realization
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Lisa Gardner |
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8b55569
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.
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philosophical
realization
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John Green |
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fca860d
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She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
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complicated
joy
joys
life
like-life
living
lorrie-moore
pressure
quote
quotes
realization
short-story
small-joys
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Lorrie Moore |
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a429a86
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He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.
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realization
thoughts
worry
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Daphne du Maurier |
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0899864
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But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts.
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orc-work
realization
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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e18714c
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The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.
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fitz
fool
hit
hurt
knowledge
measure
pain
passage
realization
realize
time
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Robin Hobb |
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4a5a76d
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...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become
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change
danger
fear
heart
love
outcome
realization
realize
result
risk
see
soul
threaten
truth
understand
worry
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Robin Hobb |
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af1eecc
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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away.
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change
dystopia
realization
world-view
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Ray Bradbury |
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c1eaa56
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"{ }
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believers
catholic
catholic-church
catholicism
christendom
church
contempt
coop
credulity
cruelty
divines
dreadful
hell
integrity
lie
luminous
martyrs
realization
ritual
sages
shame
submission
ugly
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H.G. Wells |
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bf27d84
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"The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his mother sat. They had told her of her son's acquittal, and now she was laughing, and crying, and talking, and giving way to all those feelings which she had restrained with such effort during the last few days. They brought her son to her, and she threw herself upon his neck, weeping there. He returned her embrace, but looked around, beyond. Excepting his mother, there was no one in the room but the friends who had entered with him. "Eh, lad!" she said, when she found voice to speak. "See what it is to have behaved thysel! I could put in a good word for thee, and the jury could na go and hang thee in the face of th' character I gave thee. Was na it a good thing they did na keep me from Liverpool? But I would come; I knew I could do thee good, bless thee, my lad. But thou'rt very white, and all of a tremble." He kissed her again and again, but looking round as if searching for some one he could not find, the first words he uttered were still-- "Where is she?"
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love
realization
relief
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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83a635f
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I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
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death
dispair
humans
jigsaw-puzzle
lefovers
realization
surprise
survivors
witnesses
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Markus Zusak |
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02c8e21
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"What do I do now?" I ask desperately. "Tell me! What do I do now?" He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, "Keep living, Ed.... It's only the pages that stop here." He stays perhaps another ten minutes, probably due to the trauma that has strapped itself to me. I remain standing, trying to contemplate and recover from what's transpired. "I really think I'd better go," he says again, this item with more finality. With difficulty, I walk him to the door. We say goodbye on the front porch, and he walks back up the street. I wonder about his name, but I'm sure I'll earn it soon enough. He's written about this, I'm sure, the bastard. All of it. As he walks up the street he pulls a small notebook from his pocket and writes a few things down. It makes me think maybe I should write about all this myself. After all, I;m the one who did all the work. I'd start with the bank robbery. Something like, "The gunman is useless." The odds are, however, that he's beaten me to it already It'll be his name on the cover of all these words, not mine. He'll get all the credit. Or the crap, if her does a shit job. But I just remembered the I was the one- not him- who gave life to these pages. I was the one who- I tell me to stop. It's an inner voice and it's loud. All day, I think about many things, though I try not to. I look through the folder and find everything as he said. All the ideas are written in and people are sketched. Scratchy excerpts are stapled together. Beginnings and endings merge and bend. Hours wander past. Days follow them. I don't leave the shack, and I don't answer the phone. I barely even eat. The Doorman sits with me as the minutes pass by. For a long time, I wonder what I'm waiting for, but I understand it's just like he said. I guess it's for life beyond these pages."
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love
messenger
realization
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Markus Zusak |