Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
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Gabriel García Márquez,
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
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Gabriel García Márquez,
One Hundred Years of Solitude
[Fireheart]mewed,’It’s not my place to judge you.’ Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on.’ Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.
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Erin Hunter,
Fire and Ice
The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all things spiritual without have it set before you in physical form.
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Molly Friedenfeld,
The Book of Simple Human Truths
I think it’s contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It’s quieter than excitement, but, […] maybe it’s better.
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Heather Anastasiu,
Override
What more could you want How about dominion over this ‘beautiful place’ Beauty doesn’t last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever.’
Jack answered with his gut. ‘No, love goes on forever.
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P.C. Cast,
Awakened
The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on living. He has become a parasite on the world, drawing his life from his environment, unable to live a day apart from the stimulation which society affords him.
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A.W. Tozer
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
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John Milton,
Paradise Lost
Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there’s a crisis.
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Pamela Christian,
Examine Your Faith!: Finding Truth in a World of Lies
And here, finally here in this place, in these circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Snow will win. Hot, bitter hatred courses through me. Snow has won too much already today. It’s a long shot, it’s suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. ‘Don’t let him take you from me.’ Peeta’s panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. ‘No. I don’t want to…’ I clench his hands to the point of pain. ‘Stay with me.’ His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. ‘Always,’ he murmurs.
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Suzanne Collins,
Mockingjay
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
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Isobelle Carmody,
The Keeping Place