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• But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Tree, Soul, Humanity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

  Thomas Paine

  Reflection, Thinking, Class

  Thomas Paine (1826). “The age of reason”, p.36

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

  John Ciardi

  Change, Ideas, Growth

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• Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Discipline, Padlocks, Bars

  "The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  Adam Carolla

  Nuts, Car, Guy

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• Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Passion, Writing

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

  Dorothy Parker

  Pain, Rain, Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

  C. S. Lewis

  Fall, Doe, Hook

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• And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Horse, Two, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

  Nicole Jordan

  Lightning, Seduction, Force

  Nicole Jordan (2010). “To Tame a Dangerous Lord”, p.84, Ballantine Books

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• Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

  Megan McCafferty

  Lust, Lightning, Shots

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.348, Crown

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• I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Finding Yourself, Cafeteria, Dukes

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.64, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur!" screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. Artemis straightened his tie. Freud, he was certain, would have a field day with that.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hate, Eye, Ties

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• To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Clouds, Rocks

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.805, Macmillan

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• I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Pain, Sadness, Labels

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

  Tite Kubo

  Light, Water, Shadow

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• Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

  Seamus Heaney

  Language, Impulse, Secure

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Selected Poems 1988-2013”, p.27, Macmillan

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• If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

  Cesar Romero

  Father, Nuts, Gone

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• There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Nuts, Together, Mystery

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• You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.

  Bill Walton

  Reading, Cutting, Guy

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• It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

  Nicholas Evans

  Horse, Cowboy, Nuts

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• Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.

  Toni Morrison

  Pain, Eye, Storm

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 27, 2011

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