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  1. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad."If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself."He nods in understanding."And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?"I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you."
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  2. Lois Lowry _ Gathering Blue

    I brug you two {gifts} . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' {Matt}
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  3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle _ Sherlock Holmes

    It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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  4. Gordon Korman _ The Emperor's Code

    Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.
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  5. Margaret Weis _ Elven Star

    its like you said? i lead my people-"forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-"desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!"sorry. wrong script" zifnab said
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  6. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.
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  7. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.
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  8. Vladimir Nabokov _ American Fantastic Tales:

    Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had been engaged in examining old books for miraculous misprints such as the substitution of "1" for the second "h" in the word "hither." Contrary to Cynthia, he cared nothing for the thrill of obscure predictions; all he sought was the freak itself, the chance that mimics choice, the flaw that looks like a flower; and Cynthia, a much more perverse amateur of misshapen or illicitly connected words, puns, logogriphs, and so on, had helped the poor crank to pursue a quest that in the light of the example she cited struck me as statistically insane. {"The Vane Sisters"}
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  9. Kelley Armstrong _ The Summoning

    I said. I pushed my left one up, showing four bruises, dark as ink spots. Simon paled. He rubbed his mouth, still staring at my arm. Simon's eyes widened, then he lowered his lids to hide his surprise. Derek's voice preceded him around the corner.I shrank back. I couldn't help it. As I did, a look passed through Derek's eyes. Remorse? Guilt? He blinked it away.
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  10. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
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  11. Sophie Kinsella _ The Undomestic Goddess

    A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right.
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