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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).
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tucson
dark
joy
life
love
tide
times
taught
kingsolver
rebirth
high
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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"What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously.
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times
thousand
the
mother-night
of
house
annabeth-chase
percy-jackson
hades
chase
jackson
percy
mother
night
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Rick Riordan |
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At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?
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love
no-peace
not-rather
disappointed
felt
times
feeling
her
what-if
painful
use
in-love
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Larry McMurtry |
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"These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all given up on committing positively to anything in life. This was not their fault, however. The blame lay with a certain ubiquitous spirit of the times, transmitted to them by their respective mothers. And perhaps it goes without saying that this "spirit of the times" was in fact an oppressive value system based primarily upon the absolute certainty that nothing in this world was ever going to change."
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spirit
oppressive
times
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Ryū Murakami |
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"I've seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly... they can't kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I've seen humans die from smoking them... if I were you I would stop smoking them." "Why should I? You smoke 'em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes," Mandy pointed out. "Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties... for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes... but I'm not a person, I'm Pollution, things like that aren't dangerous to me but they are to you," Alecto told her. "It's not a good idea."
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grief
loss
depression
past
education
cigar
blast-from-the-past
chain-smoke
no-smoking
vhs-tape
retro
depress
deadly
times
disturbing
smog
haunting
gray
cancer
spooky
video
creepy
smoke
cigarette
tobacco
pollution
attack
health
eerie
scary
sick
knowledge
trapped
self-help
horror
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Rebecca McNutt |
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Sa takie miejsca i takie czasy, kiedy bycie nikim przynosi wiekszy zaszczyt niz bycie kims.
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ktoś
miejsca
nikt
nobody
times
places
polish
someone
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |