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• You know, I keep having this really weird feeling that you’re going to take me someplace later and tie me up so that your friends can come laugh at me. (Channon) Does that happen to you often? (Sebastian) No, never, but this night has the makings for a Twilight Zone episode. (Channon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Twilight, Night, Laughing

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• A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.

  Joe McNally

  College, Important, Causes

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.99, Pearson Education

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• Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Real, Sleep

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• I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie.

  John Green

  Funeral, Black, Use

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• How was I to know your pet was a god-killer? What kind of idiot ties herself down to one of his kind? (Dionysus) Well, gee, what was I supposed to do? Hook up with Mr. All-powerful God-killer or get myself a Mardi Gras float and hang out with him? (She pointed to Camulus, who looked extremely offended by her comment.) You’re such a moron. No wonder you’re the patron god of drunken frat boys. (Artemis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Boys, Pet

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.874, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

  Albert Einstein

  Reflection, Destiny, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moon, Men, Talking

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.220, Penguin

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• Adrian opened his mouth, undoubtedly ready with some inappropriate and mocking comment. Lissa gave him a sharp headshake that kept him quiet. "Aren't there any, I don't know, sleeveless options?" The saleswoman's eyes widened. "No one has ever worn straps to a funeral. It wouldn't be right." "What about shorts?" asked Adrian. "Are they okay if they're with a tie? Because that's what I was gonna go with." The woman looked horrified.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Funeral, Mouths

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Order, Two, Letters

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• Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required.

  Alyson Noel

  Dinner, Seven, Thirty

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• Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

  Jack Kerouac

  Clouds, White, World

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.20, Penguin

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• Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.

  Simone Elkeles

  Winning, Bigs, Margins

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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• Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back

  Adam Young

  Stars, Track, Looks

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• All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Lovers, Sweetheart

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Song, Winning

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• Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue

  Gayle Forman

  Blue, Peaceful, Finals

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.99, Penguin

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• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Lying, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Gun, Self, Differences

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• I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

  Cory Doctorow

  Mean, Successful, Shoes

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Stars, Wall

  Pablo Neruda, “Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine, Love,”

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• You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

  George Sand

  Hands, Add, Body

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• Are you coming along peaceful-like, or am I going to have to hog-tie you and put you in the car?

  Jennifer Estep

  Car, Peaceful, Hog

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• The question is… How did a girl like Annabelle manage to talk a man like you into joining our silly little family party?” Annabelle smiled sweetly. “I promised he could tie me up afterward and spank me.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Girl, Party, Silly

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• Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ambition, Fate, Perception

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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