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• You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Butterfly, Eye

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• No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

  Lisa McMann

  Commitment, Decision, Each Day

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Gone”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.

  Anne Carson

  Dark, Light, Mind

  "Nox by Anne Carson" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Stronger, Events, Strange

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.305, Macmillan

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• Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wine, Wish, Teeth

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.192, Penguin

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• The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?" "I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Girl, Running, Mean

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• Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Lasting Impressions, Littles

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• The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

  Alyson Noel

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .

  Markus Zusak

  Clouds, Blue, Sky

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.184, Random House

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• The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Men, Sick

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• What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

  Jules Verne

  Book, Might, Captains

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.341, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• ...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Night, Sea

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Worry, Smoking

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes." "Dove's eyes are small." Marged said. "Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

  Ira Levin

  Real, Nice, Wife

  Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

  William Butler Yeats

  Feet, Three, Sometimes

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.301, Penguin

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• Eve, we're going to be married in a few days." The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah." "If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.

  Nora Roberts

  Hurt, Married, Yeah

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.668, Penguin

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• Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!

  Rick Riordan

  Eyebrows, Voice, Excuse

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• Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Yarn, Track

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• Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

  Tina St. John

  Santa, Want, Red

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• Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.

  Simone Elkeles

  Ego, Latino, Ditzy

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

  Grant Morrison

  Reading, Names, Actors

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.329, Random House

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• You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

  Margaret Weis

  Father, Dragons, Blood

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.

  Meg Cabot

  Reading, Trying, Hey

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.

  Jasper Fforde

  Nuts, Missing, Arms

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