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• I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Science, Atheism

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• I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Mean, Hands

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• Te equivocas a ti misma y a mí al suponer que mi interés por ti es puramente físico", prosiguió. "Ya le he dicho que estoy deseando que nos conozcamos más. Quiero saber lo que piensas de las cosas. Qué quieres de la vida. Lo que sueñas. -Lucien a Alice

  Gaelen Foley

  Dream, Thinking, Assuming

  Gaelen Foley (2002). "Lord of Fire", p.102, Ballantine Books

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• Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Battle, Goes On

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• The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Wish, Chance

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• Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Giving Up, Eye, Needs

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• Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.

  Suzanne Collins

  Names, Broken, Comfort

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.163, Scholastic Inc.

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• Soy extremadamente profano, inconscientemente, cuando veo algo grandioso por primera vez; no sé por qué, pero la belleza y la profanidad se relacionan conmigo de la misma manera. Puede que quiera pensar en el arte en vernáculo, pero no tengo control sobre lo que sale de mi boca cuando mis ojos contemplan una gran belleza... puede que sea la razón por la que evito ir a museos con señoras mayores.

  Vincent Price

  Arte, Ojo, Pensamiento

  Vincent Price (1959). “I Like what I Know: A Visual Autobiography”

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• Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

  Suzanne Collins

  Country, Rebellion, Whole

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.270, Scholastic

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• Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sorry, Eye, Different

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• As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sorry, Lying, Gale

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• I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Italian, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.24, A&C Black

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• The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.

  Alyson Noel

  Moving, Ideas, Differences

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• Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.

  Alyson Noel

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Brother, Eye, Light

  Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Breathless”, p.33, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Wall, Body, Arms

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• We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know." "It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Determination, Thinking, Practice

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• Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know about the Magister.” Tessa said. “They said they were preparing me for him.” “For him to do what?” Will asked. “Eat you for dinner?” Tessa shook her head. “To – to marry me, they said.” “To marry you?” Jessamine was openly scornful. “That’s ridiculous. They were probably going to blood sacrifice you and didn’t want you to panic.” (page 78)

  Cassandra Clare

  Sacrifice, Dark, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, School, Men

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

  Thomas Merton

  Catholic, Saint, Should

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• Mi corazón dio un vuelco y luego se tropezó consigo mismo y cayó de bruces. Entonces mi corazón se levantó, se sacudió, respiró hondo y anunció: "Quiero un maestro espiritual.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Espiritual, Maestro, Corazón

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). "The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims", p.26, A&C Black.

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• I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

  Nora Roberts

  Wonder, Ifs

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.296, Bantam

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• Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

  Ann Aguirre

  Naked, Fabric, Bears

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.145, Penguin

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• I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Morning, College, Tomorrow

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.67, Delacorte Press

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• Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Distance, Book

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