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“I don't go looking for trouble . . . Trouble usually finds me.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Trouble with mice is you always kill ’em.” John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so. But the wind, which we see not, troubleth and bendeth it as it listeth. We are sorest bent and troubled by invisible hands.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I'm afraid there are moments in life when even Schubert has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she was, pretending she had, to get them out of trouble. It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.” Edith Wharton, House of Mirth
“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness.” Voltaire, Candide
“You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“His life has much trouble and sadness, and remains far behind yours. If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“But mad people never do die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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