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• To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amus­ing?" Amelia toyed with a button on his coat. "I was just thinking . . . tonight those two old hens will probably go to their beds, cold and alone." An impish grin curved her lips. "Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Night, Thinking

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• Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.

  Sara Zarr

  Want, Faces, Speed

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• One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.

  Marc Benioff

  Moving, People, Example

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• Oh, for God's sake," I said. "Just give me the stupid thing." I took the panic button and stuck it into my Super Sexy Miracle Bra. "GPS," Ranger said to Morelli. "Probably I can find her breast without it," Morelli said. "But it's good to know there's a navigational system on board if I need it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sexy, Stupid, Gps

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• I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Thinking, Emotional

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• I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

  Bill Nighy

  Men, Relax, Shirts

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• One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

  Rachel Nichols

  Genre Is, Talking, Hot

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• I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to hide.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Healthy, The End Of The Day

  "Forget Hollywood: Ashton Kutcher is Silicon Valley's secret weapon". Details Interview, www.celebitchy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

  Eoin Colfer

  Calling, Able, Excuse

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• Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light and a whooshing sound, and the room was plunged into blackness. Tessa gave a yelp of surprise, and Jem laughed softly. "Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Voice, Darkness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Love You, Eye

  "Coraline". Book by Neil Gaiman, January 24, 2002.

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• Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.

  Libba Bray

  Reset Button, Needs, Planets

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.105, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• ... because he was going to marry her. “It is customary to ask,” she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she’d licked and sucked and kissed not long ago. “Why?” He shrugged. “I’m not giving you a choice.

  Nalini Singh

  Long Ago, Giving, Choices

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Lord of the Abyss”, p.277, Harlequin

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• They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Memories, Tangled, Bird

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn't have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fighting, Dark, Clothes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Winter, Night

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.91, Penguin

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• My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

  Robin McKinley

  Past, Night, Water

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• The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophical, Thinking, Men

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

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• I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

  Terry McMillan

  Want, Get Back

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.94, Penguin

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• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  Rachel Caine

  Summer, Teacher, Crazy

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• After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

  Salma Hayek

  Commitment, Thinking, Reset Button

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• Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Bottles, Scientist

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

  Bobby Jones

  Fun, Golf, Men

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heart, Acceptance, Technology

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• When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!

  Dane Cook

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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