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• I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Loss, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

  Jon Foreman

  Eye, Light, Times Like These

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• Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

  Colson Whitehead

  Glasses, Dust, Broken

  Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.257, Random House

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• When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Mother, Rain, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspiring, Thinking, Trying

  "Annie Leibovitz On Getting The Shot–And The Future Of Photography". Interview with Rae Ann Fera, www.fastcompany.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

  Anne Sexton

  Hoarding, Sculpture, Pieces

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• Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Monday, Crazy, Rooms

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• Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

  Ann Brashares

  Book, Funny Things, Feet

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.90, Penguin

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• In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Rip, Clouds, Leaving

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Eye, Cutting, Feet

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• Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cooking, Enemy

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.78, A&C Black

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• How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

  Paul Celan

  Lasts, Knots, Worn

  Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

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• Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

  Daniel Handler

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  "The Penultimate Peril: A Series of Unfortunate Events #12". Book by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), October 18, 2005.

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• No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Rocks, Steel

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

  Milan Kundera

  Giving, Unity, Splits

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• You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Thinking, Nails

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• For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Sadness, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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• We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wise, Writing, Heart

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

  George Orwell

  Dust, Years, Knowing

  George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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• He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Hunting, Cells

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor

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• Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Black, Shaving, Size

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter X, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

  Dennis Miller

  Groups, Entering, Becoming

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

  I. F. Stone

  Integrity, Artist, Russia

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• Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

  Jenny Han

  Dog, Divorce, Eight

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