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The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
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Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
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Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
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When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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You do what you love, what you need
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I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
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People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
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When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
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Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
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Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital st...
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The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
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We all have a responsibility to be good stewards of our natural resources. Conserving our soil and w...
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That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
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Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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Water is unquestionably one of the most important natural resources and is essential for sustaining ...
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She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th...
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Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw...
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He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th...
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When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
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I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi...
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It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...
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But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �...
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A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
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The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
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Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
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The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
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The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrologi...
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The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
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I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
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It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
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If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
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I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
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Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
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Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
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I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS
I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
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He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
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I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
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Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
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The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
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It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
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Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
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Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
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How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved?...
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When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to ex...
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I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w...
JOHN SCALZI
The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or a...
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The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. ...
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Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.
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The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring...
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What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
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...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to ...
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Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
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You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!
LATOYA ALSTON
it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY
All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER
Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON
Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY
The best person I know is Myself.
JEFF KINNEY
If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI
I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

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Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?”
“We’re going to look for water,” said...
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Seriously? You won’t help me?”
“Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.
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If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, ...
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If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, ...
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Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably...
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you wo...
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This...
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Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religi...
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
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Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.
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I gotta tell you, ... It's pretty crazy when you think about taking whatever's on the other end of t...
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It was by far just a one-girl show. She led every offensive and defensive category for Bishop Kearne...
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drink beer. But that's kind of my goal pretty much wherever I go.
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I'm very pleased that we made the top four. But I feel that we could have had a stronger showing.
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I've been asked to make an announcement, ... There is a non-luxury car in the parking lot. We've bee...
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The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.
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We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will ne...
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Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.
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Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art...
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I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy i...
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Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones...
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Ridley is a tea drinker.
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It's a concept I've often thought of.
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You get people from all walks of life here -- who work in domestic service.
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I believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature, ... I'd...
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We became pretty sensitive about it. We visited Great Ormond Street Hospital when we were in England...
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What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge ham...
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I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
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Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuc...
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Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger...
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
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The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable ent...
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Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant d...
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I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules,including:* Both of your socks sh...
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Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look...
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There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winte...
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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
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