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• There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Escaping, Doors

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• A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Morning, Fifteen, Next

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• To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

  Andrea Gibson

  Thinking, Sweaters, Village

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2011

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• My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Feelings, Can Do

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• Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

  Kami Garcia

  Butterfly, Sight, Like Love

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• He lay before God as a woman opens herself to a man, with legs apart, stomach exposed, arms open. But unlike some women, he did not have the inner strength that allowed them to do such a thing without fear. There was no woman’s strength in Mellas at all.

  Karl Marlantes

  Men, Inner Strength, Legs

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”, p.414, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Air, People, Silence

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.382, Penguin

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• Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) One time. When I met ya girl my heart when knock (knock knock) Now them butterflies in my stomach won't stop (stop stop) Even love is a struggle and it's all we got. So we gun keep keep climbing to the mountain top. 'Cause your world, is my world, and my breath is your breath, and my heart is yours.

  Justin Bieber

  Girl, Struggle, Butterfly

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• I looked down at my stomach. I grabbed at it, seeing how much fat I could lift up in a roll. "Don't worry," you said, one eye open again like a crocodile watching me. "You're beautiful." You tipped your head back. "Beautiful," you murmured. "Perfect.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Eye, Perfect

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

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• Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dad, People, Stories

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.59, Penguin

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• You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Charming, Knots

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.31, Penguin

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• She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. "Nuh-uh. Mine." "Share!" she demanded. "Man, you are one grabby girlfriend." She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. "If you love me, you'll give me a taco." "Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll do sexy, illegal things to me for a taco?" "Not for a taco," she said. "I'm not cheap." "They're brisket tacos." "Now you're talking.

  Rachel Caine

  Sexy, Girlfriend, Eye

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• Hey! Guy with scary eyes?" Madison called out. "You know what a moose does when someone insults her family?" Ivan raised his eyebrows. "She does this." Madison crouched down and charged Ivan. Her head hit him in the stomach.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Guy, Scary

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• I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

  Walter Wangerin

  Mother, Stars, Book

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• When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Heaven, Surprise

  BBC interview on "Face to Face"; The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 503, 1959.

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• Every child is born not only with a stomach that has to be catered to, it is also endowed with two hands which can work and produce the food for the stomach. The hands have to be given the strength and skill; they have to learn the lesson of self-reliance. They should never be lazy or slothful. Then, there can be no deficiency in food and no problem of underfeeding.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Self, Hands

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• I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.

  Gonjasufi

  Teaching, Use, Projects

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Men, Keys

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.

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• The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

  John Steinbeck

  Eye, Sound, Ribs

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

  Helen Keller

  Empty, Company, Empty Stomach

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• We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Cutting, Thinking

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• It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

  Henry Bromell

  Important

  "Fictional character: One-Who-Waits". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.

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• When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

  Craig Finn

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Band

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Mean, Feelings, Pits

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