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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Color, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks.

  Russell Brand

  Dad, Ideas, Identity

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• I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Thinking, People, One Day

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.362, Macmillan

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• I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Recovery, Kissing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

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• Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique coins. I sat frozen, awash in a sea of power. I was beginning to understand why Mircea had wanted him along, only Daddy had failed to mention anything about the hair-trigger temper. I guess he assumed the red hair would clue me in.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Sea

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.151, Penguin

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• He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course. This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Love Life, Passion

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• Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Feelings, Might, Awful

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• How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.

  W. G. Sebald

  Book, Twilight, Dark

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.140, Vintage Canada

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• Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

  Kristin Cashore

  Father, Apology, Fire

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.56, Penguin

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• But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.

  Shannon Hale

  Running, Stars, Dark

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• I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Littles, Apocalypse

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “Signal to Noise”, p.51, Dark Horse Comics

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• Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

  Lewis Carroll

  Horse, Kings, Wall

  Lewis Carroll (1998). “Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

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• I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Night, Missing

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• Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

  Wilkie Collins

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," Katsa snapped back.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hair, Blue, Tables

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• He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Long, Littles, Foreseen

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.874, Pan Macmillan

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• He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.

  Elizabeth George

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Elizabeth George (2010). “A Great Deliverance”, p.413, Bantam

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• I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Taken, Men, Long

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• If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Lds, Joy, Afternoon

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• Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Fun, Light, Laughing

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Three, Alex

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap.

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Stupid, Mean

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• I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

  Raymond Chandler

  Trouble, Chairs, Regan

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.24, Modern Library

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• When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Nice, People, Looks

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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