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• I know what it’s like to be torn between a love so pure it burns you deep down in a place you didn’t know someone could touch you and between your oath and duties. Between the love of a father you’ve always known and one you know you can depend on forever versus a love that’s new and untested. But you know what I learned? It’s a lot easier to live without my father’s love than it is to live without Phoebe’s. (Urian) (Acheron didn’t speak as Urian left him alone.) That just makes you want to vomit, doesn’t it? (Jaden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Forever, Want

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• Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

  Jodi Picoult

  Caras

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.374, Penguin

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• ¡Cómo os amaré entonces, noches desgarradas por el dolor! Si sólo os hubiera recibido, hermanas inconsolables, sobre rodillas más abyectas, si sólo me hubiera enterrado con más abandono en vuestros cabellos sueltos. ¡Cómo malgastamos nuestras aflicciones! Las estudiamos, miramos más allá de ellas hacia la lúgubre continuidad, esperando vislumbrar algún final. Mientras que en realidad son nuestro follaje invernal, nuestros verdes oscuros de significado, una de las estaciones del año clandestino -- ; no sólo una estación --: son sitio, asentamiento, refugio, suelo, morada.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé (2008). “Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Una de las pruebas más seguras de la superioridad o inferioridad de un poeta es la forma en que toma prestado. Los poetas inmaduros imitan a los poetas maduros robando Los malos poetas desfiguran lo que toman y los buenos poetas lo convierten en algo mejor o, al menos, en algo diferente. El buen poeta suelda su robo en un conjunto de sentimientos que es único y totalmente diferente de aquello de lo que lo arranca; el mal poeta lo arroja en algo que no tiene cohesión. Un buen poeta suele tomar prestado de autores lejanos en el tiempo o ajenos en el lenguaje o diversos en interés.

  T. S. Eliot

  Arte, Único, Robar cosas

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• I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Unhappy, Pieces

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• If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be extremely stupid. The white man must be profoundly troubled - probably torn by a huge guilt connected to how he treated the ancestors - to think that villagers would buy the idea that someone died on the cross for us. They would say these beliefs are evidence that the white people killed someone of great importance, probably a diviner and a healer. If you kill a healer, you must make amends by appeasing the healer's spirit.

  Malidoma Patrice Algunos

  Estúpido, Hombres, Pensar

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It’s like some form of skin’s developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. "Hide and Seek

  Kay Ryan

  Air, Long, Waiting

  Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.250, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.

  Claudia Gray

  Dolor, Flor, Corazón

  Claudia Gray (2010). “Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Son, Dark

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs hardly belonged to him, he sprang down and stumbled across to Swiftpaw. The apprentice lay on his side, his legs splayed out. His black-and-white fur was torn, and his body was covered with dreadful wounds, ripped by teeth far bigger than any cat's. His jaws still snarled and his eyes glared. He was dead, and Fireheart could see that he had died fighting.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Eye, Fighting

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• I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determinación, Militar, Guerra

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• Los marxistas son gente que se desgarra las entrañas día tras día porque quieren dominar el mundo y nadie les publica ni una carta al director.

  Mark Helprin

  Editores, Gente, Mundo

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• Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Loneliness, Eye, Night

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• I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.

  Suzanne Collins

  Air, Apples, Arrows

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.292, Scholastic Inc.

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• Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Hard Times, Animal

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• We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Needs, Earth

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.38, SCM Press

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• It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.

  Wendell Berry

  Hurt, Healing, Broken

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.81, Counterpoint Press

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• I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

  Albert Brooks

  Coats, Fans, Stories

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• Uno siempre siente su doble condición: un americano, un negro; dos almas, dos pensamientos, dos esfuerzos no reconciliados; dos ideales enfrentados en un cuerpo oscuro, cuya tenaz fuerza es la única que impide que se haga pedazos.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dark, Two, Black History

  "Luchas del pueblo negro" (1897)

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• ¡Cuando uno a uno nuestros lazos se rompen, y el amigo del amigo es arrebatado desamparado; cuando el hombre es dejado solo para llorar, ¡oh! entonces qué dulce es morir!

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Amistad, Muerte, Dulce

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• To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Study, My Time

  John James Audubon (1831). “Ornithological Biography, Or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America: Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners”, p.8

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• I don't care who I have to fight! If he rips my arms out, I'll kick him to death! If he rips my legs off, I'll bite him to death! If he rips my head off, I'll stare him to death! And if he gouges out my eyes, I'll curse him from the grave! Even If i'm torn to shreds, I'm taking Sasuke back from Orochimaru!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Rip, Eye, Fighting

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• She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless person, she looked great to Percy. So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Light, Hair

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• Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use it as a source in your own essay." Sydney had been torn between horror and hysterics when she told me. "I took 'primary source' to a whole new level!" Honestly, it was a wonder we'd gotten by for so long without Angeline. Life must have been so boring before her.

  Richelle Mead

  Writing, Long, Use

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• My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

  Marie Lu

  Heart, Would Be, Willpower

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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