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• We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Night, Drifting Off

  Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with." "So of course you immediately came down.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Tunnels, Water

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• Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Husband, White, People

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.49, Penguin

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• Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Boss, May, Judgment

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Thinking, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2015

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• I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

  Michael Moore

  People, Secret, Democracy

  Michael Moore (2011). “Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life”, p.271, Penguin UK

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• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Hurt, Boys

  "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

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• . . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Awful, Rooms

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

  August Strindberg

  Mad, Lions, Bees

  Johan August Strindberg, Michael Robinson (2008). “Miss Julie and Other Plays”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself. I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not so prejudiced any more.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, People, Easier

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Firsts, Scream, Bites

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.23, Penguin

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• Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.

  Sarah Dessen

  Differences, Easy, Choosy

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.96, Penguin

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• I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

  Sarah Dessen

  Differences, Adam, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.117, Penguin

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• That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in America—probably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

  Lauren Oliver

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Crush, Letting Go, Butterfly

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• Willa’s big blue eyes, Willa’s dimpled-cheeked smile. Tiffin’s shaggy blond mane, Tiffin’s cheeky grin. Kit’s yells of excitement, Kit’s glow of pride. Maya’s face, Maya’s kisses, Maya’s love. Maya, Maya, Maya . . .

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Eye, Pride, Kissing

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• People always stay the age that they died at. My big brother died of leukemia when I was six. He was eight. Now when I think of him, he's always eight, and he's still my big brother. He never changes, and the part of me that remembers him never changes.

  Christopher Moore

  Brother, Thinking, Eight

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Falling In Love, Different

  "Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift Choosing to Be 'Miss Independent': Which Star Is Better Off Single?", www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Couple, People, Guy

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• Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Needs

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.110, Penguin

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• He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Heart, Space, Tears

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• He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose over her, powerful and male. He casually parted her legs with his knees and thrust into her again, hot and hard. She gasped at the swift invasion, the lovely feeling, and then his face was next to hers, his big palms cradling her cheeks. “What I want,” he drawled, “is ye. Nothin’ else.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Powerful, Rose, Feelings

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• She crushed it, telling herself she was going to add Big in front of her Idiot tattoo.

  Nalini Singh

  Tattoo, Add, Idiot

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.168, Penguin

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• In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt. "It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered. "What?" Hazel asked. "The master bolt," Percy said. "What are you talking about?" "I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was gone. "Nothing, I guess.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Talking, Sky

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• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Spring, School

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.340, GENERAL PRESS

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