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• Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.

  Jen Lancaster

  Book, Cat, Taste

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• I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

  Peter Cameron

  Awful, Pressure, Obligation

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But search her dreams all you like and you'll never find Prince Charming. No knight on a white horse gallops into her dreams to carry her away. When she dreams of love, she dreams of smashed potatoes.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dream, Horse, Fall

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My ignorance is not charming.

  Susan Sontag

  Ignorance

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• You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or..." "Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite. "Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.

  Lauren Myracle

  Kings, Nice, Numbness

  Lauren Myracle (2008). “Thirteen”, p.149, Penguin

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• That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood," she said. "You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself." "That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood," he said. "You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.

  Loretta Chase

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Trying

  Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.126, Penguin

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• Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dirt, Honest

  Tamora Pierce (2003). “Trickster's Choice”, p.186, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

  Alain de Botton

  Letting Go, Struggle, Secular Society

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I will feast on enemies of Ra until my belly is full!” “Charming,” Sadie whispered.

  Rick Riordan

  Enemy, Sadie, Belly

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• He wasn't into one-night stands, he wasn't into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn't into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new and attractive. He just wasn't like that. He would never be like that. When he met a girl, the first question he asked himself wasn't whether she was good for a few dates; it was whether she was the kind of girl he could imagine spending time with in the long haul.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Cutting, Night

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• It's late, I'm tired, and your cigarettes are giving me a headache," I growled. "I suppose that's fair." He drew in on the cigarette and let out the smoke. "Some women think they make me look sexy." "I think you smoke them so you have something to do while thinking up your next witty line." He choked on the smoke, caught between inhaling and laughing. "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak.

  Richelle Mead

  Sexy, Witty, Tired

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• Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.

  Ryan Howard

  Flower, Pda, Years

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• Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.

  Mira Grant

  Wells, Dies

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sleep, Occupation, Ifs

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.141, tredition

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• I'm not an easy lay, Alexion” He actually smiled a real smile at her. It was charming and unexpected. "I am.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Real, Unexpected, Easy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.100, Macmillan

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• The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, People, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady." "Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old." "Er— really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties." "Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Names, Trying, Eric

  MaryJanice Davidson (2005). “Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Stomach, Knots

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.31, Penguin

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• The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Nice, Guy, Like You

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones.

  Kim Harrison

  Insane, Demon

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• Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Cute, Smart, College

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2012). “Smart Girls Get What They Want”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming." Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sweet, Cutting, Men

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• I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang) Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, People, Made

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.223, Macmillan

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• Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

  Rose Macaulay

  Independent, Self, Parent

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