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• Piper gripped his hand and followed him, “If I fall, you’re catching me.” “Uh, sure.” Jason hoped he wasn’t blushing. Leo stepped out next. “You’re catching me, too, Superman. But I ain’t holding your hand.

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Hands, Jason

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• Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• "You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment."

  Lynsay Sands

  Love You, Important, Peers

  "The Renegade Hunter". Book by Lynsay Sands, September 29, 2009.

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• How does Parker’s body compare with yours ” Great. A pop quiz I thought recognizing his transition into lecture mode. “How does Parker’s body compare with mine Hmm.” I gave Parker a quick theatrical once-over and he smiled clearly catching on to my line of thought. “Nice legs and killer biceps. But I have better boobs. No question.

  Rachel Vincent

  Nice, Catching On, Transition

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• Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Distance, Moving, Kissing

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• Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands. Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance. Do you have to make me feel Like there's nothing left of me?

  Demi Lovato

  Hands, Sky, Silence

  Song: Skyscraper, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Light, Broken, Kitchen

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.3, Grove Press

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• I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha

  Chetan Bhagat

  Laughing, Mind, Pockets

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• I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hurt, Thinking, Expression

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.184, Harper Collins

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• I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable.” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Children, Kissing

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• Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.

  Patrick Ness

  Fall, White, Clothes

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• She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

  Johnny Mercer

  Music, Girl, Giving

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• ... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

  Shere Hite

  Father, Democracy, Catching Up

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.406, Seven Stories Press

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• I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game, obviously it beats you up both mentally and physically.

  Joe Mauer

  Games, Beats, Involved

  "Native Son: An Interview with Minnesota's Joe Mauer". Interview with Dan Wade, bleacherreport.com. December 11, 2009.

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• If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sympathy, Lying, Heart

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• There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Differences, Social Change

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• I love filmmaking when fate is a part of the process and you are dependent on the laws of physics and the elements to get a single moment that transports or in some way creates an illusion even for a moment. I think that is tremendous fun and what I think filmmaking is, catching lightning in a bottle.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fun, Single Mom, Fate

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.

  Bill Dickey

  Yankees, Balls, Harder

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• Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Color, Wind, Grace

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Playing in the rain is worth catching cold.

  Michael Tolcher

  Rain, Cold

  Song: Sooner or Later, Album: I Am, 2007

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• I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

  Carol Bartz

  Perfection, Balance, Balls

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• I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Moving, Home, Moon

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• Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re catching on that it doesn’t even matter if you don’t vote because they have realized modern elections are just a way for the 1% to appease the 99% – a way to keep the masses in line by making them believe they’ve had their say, thereby perpetuating the lie that democracy continues.

  James Morcan

  Lying, Party, Believe

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• Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Competition, Conversation, Breaths

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