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  1. Fulton J. Sheen _ Life of Christ

    Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
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  3. Stephenie Meyer _ Twilight

    Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.
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  4. Stephenie Meyer _ Breaking Dawn

    You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
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  5. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The First Salute

    Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.
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  7. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ The Pact

    I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.
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  9. Ernest Hemingway _ A Farewell to Arms

    When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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  10. Rick Riordan _ The Last Olympian

    The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him. It was the only way to avoid a civil war among the gods.""It unbalanced the Council," I remembered. "Suddenly there were seven guys and five girls."Hestia shrugged. "It was the best solution, not a perfect one. Now I tend the fire. I fade slowly into the background. No one will ever write epic poems about the deeds of Hestia. Most demigods don't even stop to talk to me. But that is no matter. I keep the peace. I yield when necessary. Can you do this?
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  11. Rick Riordan _ The Red Pyramid

    Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.
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