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  1. Michael Marshall Smith _ By Blood We Live

    Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
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  2. Dante Alighieri

    There is no greater sorro
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ To the Lighthouse

    It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out {she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights} in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ Mrs. Dalloway

    For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
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  5. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    ...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.
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  6. R.L. Stine _ Ghost Camp

    At least I rescued your poor hot dog.
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  7. Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind

    I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.
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  8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him.
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  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot

    I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them."
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  10. Pat Conroy _ South of Broad

    I was born in the age of "alas"."
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  11. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.
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  12. Gregory Maguire _ How Beautiful the Ordinary:

    I am forty. {...} I know who I am. The treachery of possibilities that threaten to swamp a young guy -- I negotiated them. I'm on the other side. The safe side.Why then do I remember the perilous moments with such fond affection?
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