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• One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Greed, Sound

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• Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.

  Margaret George

  Journey, Self, Two

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

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• Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Drinking, Home, Tired

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• Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Art, Memories

  'To-: Music when soft voices die' (published 1824).

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• Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Pain, Father

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.205

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• I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, Thinking, Glasses

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Regret, First Love, Kissing

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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• She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.

  E.D. Baker

  Way, Looking Good

  E. D. Baker (2011). “The Dragon Princess: And other tales of Magic, Spells and True Luuurve”, A&C Black

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• Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Romantic, Art

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.110

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• When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

  Anne Michaels

  Gratitude, Book, Simple

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• And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

  June Jordan

  Sea, Waiting, Mountain

  June Jordan (1998). “Affirmative Acts: Political Essays”, Anchor

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• It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Thinking, Ends, Companion

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• When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Cameras, Tripping

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lying, Eye, Yellow

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• And, whoa!" He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way!" Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. "The wine dude?" "Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine!" "My figurine." "In my game, Mythomagic. And holofoil card, too! And even though you've only got like five hundred attack points and everybody thinks your the lamest god card, I totally think your powers are sweet!" "Ah." Mr.D seemed truly perplexed, which probably saved my life. "Well, that's...gratifying.

  Rick Riordan

  Wine, Eye, Thinking

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• Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?

  Annie Proulx

  Heart, Eye, Night

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

  Terry Goodkind

  Apples, Looks, Juice

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• It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

  Oscar Wilde

  Life And Love, Air, Feet

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Ballade of reading Gaol”, p.6, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished what I’d said was true, that we had truly left our mark on the mountain. But I knew that after the next snowfall, our angels would disappear into the whiteness and be nothing more than a memory.

  Richelle Mead

  Memories, Angel, Quiet Moments

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• She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

  Saul Bellow

  Mean, Honey, Cold

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don't you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Doors, Water, Hay

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• It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Blood, Sick

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

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• Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Morning, Kissing

  Song: Burning Love

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• Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stars, Destiny, Track

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Love, Stargirl”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed

  P. C. Cast

  Life Changing, Unique, Untamed

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