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I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or another, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing becasue they've got nothing else to do. But nobody- and I mean nobody- has ever been hungry for it like this boy.

The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch

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Someday, Lock Lamora, someday, you're going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly, that the sky will light up ad the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee.

The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch

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Atonement and reconciliation after an argument demonstrate strength of character and bolster the atmosphere of the workplace.

Beastly Bones by William Ritter

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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, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

Peter and the Starcatcher Dave Berry

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Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.

Peter and the Starcatcher Dave Berry

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Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

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We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

I’ll Give You the Sun Jandy nelson

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That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest ones always are.

Jackaby William Ritter

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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (via quotethat)

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial––I believe we are lost.

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Because You wasted so much time on me, you made me feel very important..

Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince (via theliteraryjournals)

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I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.

A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

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– A very useful writing tool.

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This helped me quite a bit. If anyone else has sources for describing hair/skin/eye colors in writing, please share! I’m always searching for them. 

Describing Hair Colors

Here’s some places to go if you’re tired of using the words ‘brown’, ‘black’, ‘blonde’, ‘redhead’, etc. Also good places to get a more definite idea beyond the generic and get a better feel for your character!

List of Hair Colors (ObsidianBookshelf)

200 Words Describing Hair

Human Hair Color (Wikipedia) ~ With extra links

(Above source: http://www.latest-hairstyles.com)

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BONUS!: Describing A Person - Adding Details (covers hair, skin, face shape, etc)

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There's adventure in the air... and cake to be eaten.

Robert Sharenow, The Berling Boxing Club (Winzig und Spatz

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The weakest punches are thrown with the tongue.

Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club