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• Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Order, Years

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• Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

  Juliet Marillier

  Song, Flames, Wind

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Fall, Night

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.113, Random House

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• Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?" Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear." Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow. "You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." "If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said.

  John Flanagan

  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

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• You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he was saying?" "Not a lot of the time, no," Halt said. Crowley shook his head in wonder. "It's just as well he didn't go into the Diplomatic Service. We'd be at war with half a dozen countries by now if he was on the loose." Will drew a deep breath to begin talking. He noticed that both men took an involuntary half step backward and he decided he'd better try to keep it as simple as possible.

  John Flanagan

  Country, War, Simple

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• You’re not going to drive me home?” I asked. A waste of breath, since I knew her answer. “There’s fog.” “Patchy fog.” Vee grinned. “Oh, boy. He is so on your mind. Not that I blame you. Personally, I’m hoping I dream about him tonight.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Home, Boys

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hands, Knives, Secret

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Believe, Too Much, Umbrella

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.165, Random House

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• Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.' 'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.' 'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.' 'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.' Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.' 'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?

  Derek Landy

  Running, Girlfriend, Emo

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• You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sound, Ponds, Stones

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 24, 2015

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• Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Order, Black

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.271, Faber & Faber

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• Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Names, Sunrise

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He's looking at me as if the whole world waits for my next breath, with an intensity that makes my heart pound and my palms sweat and then he smiles, a sweet curve of his mouth, and my breath catches, but then I freeze because there is something about it, something beyond it that I know, that makes my mind go blank with fear and pain.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.42, Penguin

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• We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

  Patrick Ness

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.

  Lauren Oliver

  Baby, Hands, Bird

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Men, Long

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.318, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.

  Kami Garcia

  Pain, Fall, Rocks

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• He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ears, Moments, Hours

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.729, Simon and Schuster

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• I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us.

  Mary Oliver

  Sometimes, Wonderful, Stop Time

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press

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• Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

  Mark Nepo

  Long, Matter, Way

  Mark Nepo (2000). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have”, p.410, Conari Press

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• Lincoln?” she (Beth) asked. “Yes?” “Do you believe in love at first sight?” He made himself look at her face, at her wide-open eyes and earnest forehead. At her unbearably sweet mouth. “I don’t know,” he said. “Do you believe in love before that?” Her breath caught in her throat like a sore hiccup. And then it was too much to keep trying not to kiss her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Sweet, Believe, Eye

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• A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Pieces, Steam

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.116, Penguin

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• Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.

  Deb Caletti

  Strong, Wall, Thinking

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.

  Anna Funder

  Dream, Real, Together

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• Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don’t have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

  Rachel Caine

  Mom, Trying, Sound

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.115, Penguin

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