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“There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be. ”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

tags: justice

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“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: hurricane, justice

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#3

“Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

tags: justice, pain, revenge

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#4

“Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

tags: justice

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#5

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: justice, morality, revenge, wrongdoing

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#6

“Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.”
― Allan Pinkerton

tags: crime, justice, law

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#7

“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: justice, morality, religious

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#8

“If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.”
― Curtis Mayfield

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#9

“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

tags: justice, law

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#10

“Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.”
― Inga Muscio

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#11

“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

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#12

“We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the
one.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.”
― Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

tags: men, sex, the-one, women

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#13

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#14

“What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.”
― Kathleen Peacock, Hemlock

tags: boys, cactus, hemlock, jason, sense

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#15

“Do you want some words of advice, Tess?”
I glanced at Adam’s profile as he sipped.
“Don’t give your heart away too easily.” He turned to me. “Make him earn it.”
― C.J. Duggan, The Boys of Summer

tags: boys, romance, summer, young-adult

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#16

“Every guy seems nice until he’s not.”
― Claire LaZebnik

tags: boys, claire-lazebnik, elise, epic-fail, reality

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#17

“Personally, I'd prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Team Human

tags: boys, girls, sex

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#18

“I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can't promise you that I won't want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.”
― C.J. Duggan, The Boys of Summer

tags: boys, romance, summer, young-adult

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#19

“The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

tags: boys, men, true, world

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#20

“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
― Salvador Dali, The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali

tags: elegance, women

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#21

“Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.”
― Kate McGuinness

tags: feminism-eating-disorders, rape, women-s-rights

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#22

“The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.”
― Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls

tags: affairs, life, love, relationships

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#23

“You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?”
― Meg Cabot, When Lightning Strikes

tags: explosions, funny, jess-mastriani, relationships, rob-wilkins, when-lightning-strikes

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#24

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.”
― Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

tags: confidence, dating, friends, relationships, self-esteem

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#25

“Please, touch me, I pray.”
― Jess C Scott, The Intern

tags: desire, friendship, funny, girl, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, lust, lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults

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#26

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

tags: dream, fucked-up, funny, humor, other, philosophy, relationships

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#27

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

tags: relationships

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#28

“What is it about men that make women so lonely?”
― Elliot Perlman

tags: relationships

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#29

“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.”
― Gayle G. Roper, Shadows on the Sand

tags: love, marriage, relationships, woman

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#30

“I don't deserve you. I'm not made for relationships. I know I'm going to fuck this up. I'm going to drive you away or do something to hurt you, and you'll be added to my list of people I screwed over. You should walk away now.”
― M.A. Stacie, Unwritten Rules

tags: love, relationships, romance

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