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• 'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Eye, Fighting, Acceptance

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• When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kids, Thinking, Brain

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• bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Moon, Glasses

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• V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago." She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.

  J.R. Ward

  Tattoo, Lying, Fighting

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• Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be

  Abbi Glines

  Goodbye

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Fallen Too Far Trilogy: Includes Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Long, Soul

  Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

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• And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Thinking, White, Black

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• She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.

  John Green

  Kissing, Night, Light

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• Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Views, Fans

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• Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.

  Linda Lael Miller

  Pain, Heart, Thinking

  Linda Lael Miller (2017). “McKettrick Men Complete Collection: McKettrick's Luck\McKettrick's Pride\McKettrick's Heart”, p.403, HQN Books

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• …I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sorry, Character, Aunt

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.569, e-artnow

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• I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do - the actual act of writing - turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, People, Giving

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Flying, Stories, Shells

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cracks, Lace, Cold

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

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• Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Dream, Team

  Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 4, 2005.

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• What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

  Margaret Atwood

  Night, Light, Eggs

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.22, Anchor

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• That buy is totally cracked out," Vic said one day, as we walked past Balthazar in the great hall. I don't think he's on alything." I didn't mean, for real. If he was cracked out for real, he'd probably be having more fun, right?" Vic shrugged. "Balty looks like he's not having any fun. He looks like he never had any. Like he wouldn't know fun if it started dancing around yelling 'I'm fun' in his face.

  Claudia Gray

  Fun, Real, Mean

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• Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Glasses, Names

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.23

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• I remember my first year, I hit him with three good punches and couldn't believe he was still standing. He hit me with one and cracked my helmet. My head hurt for a week.

  Georges Laraque

  Hurt, Believe, Hockey

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• I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

  Cam'ron

  Rap, Killers, Broadway

  Song: Bout it Bout it... Part III

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• His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Doors, Breathing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

  Geri Halliwell

  Daughter, Mother, Responsibility

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• My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Kids, House

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• I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ice, Ears, Fists

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