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• Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

  Ally Carter

  Light, Trying, Liz

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• If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Numbers, Squares

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• You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Book, Eye, House

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• But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Character, Cutting, Guests

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• Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Perfect, Needs, Quiet

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• Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  School, Locks, Wonder

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• I can't even tell you how good it felt to see him. It felt even better when he reached through the metal grate, wrapped his fingers around the front of my shirt, dragged me forward, and kissed me through the bars. "Sorry" he said-only not looking to sorry, if you know what I mean.

  Meg Cabot

  Sorry, Mean, Bars

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• Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?

  Alexandra Bracken

  Jobs, Gone, Arms

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• That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.

  Michelle Moran

  Cat, Giving, Use

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.603, Broadway Books

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• I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.

  Patricia Briggs

  Anime, People, Monsters

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• Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Fall, Mean

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.83, Vintage

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• So, go talk to flowers about bulls and such," Aphrodite said. "I'll go talk to flowers," Stevie Rae said.

  P. C. Cast

  Flower, Bulls, Aphrodite

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.

  P. C. Cast

  Taken, Waiting, Tests

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• Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back

  Rick Riordan

  Names, Bites, Luke

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• I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

  Haruki Murakami

  Confused, Talking, Two

  Haruki Murakami (1989). “Norwegian Wood”

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• It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Atheist, Law

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• Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Support

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Integrity, Eye, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.702, Macmillan

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• arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

  David Levithan

  Mistake, Would Be, Lapses

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• she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

  Janet Fitch

  Girl, Mother

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Creativity, Godly

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• Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Goofing Around, Ends, Results

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• When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.

  Kim Harrison

  Home, Eye, Light

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• My sister thought about it for a few moments. "Well, that's boring," she said finally. "Why can't you read porn of something fun that I could borrow?" I laughed. "Maybe later.

  Cate Tiernan

  Fun, Boring, Moments

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