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• The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

  William Ellery Channing

  Hate, Winning, World

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.161

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• I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

  Anais Nin

  Growing, Enormous, Immense

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• Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Jobs, Cutting

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

  Richard Curtis

  Mistake, Forever, Months

  "Fictional character: The Count". "The Boat That Rocked", www.imdb.com. April 1, 2009.

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• That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

  Haruki Murakami

  School, Drawing, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 13, 2015

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• What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You'd crush all my hopes and dreams, but it's an option.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Hopes And Dreams, You Again

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• Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.

  Laini Taylor

  Space, Dancing, Faces

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Letting Go, Butterfly, Swimming

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• In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

  Margaret Stohl

  Wheels, Ends

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Running, Weed

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• You know I could crush you." "I know you won't." "Why, because I need to protect you?" "No," She poked him in the breastplate. "Because you gave me a pillow.

  Larissa Ione

  Needs, Protect You, Pillow

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• Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

  Kobayashi Issa

  Care, Pearls, Grasshoppers

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• People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Fire, Rocks

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Blood Noir”, p.232, Hachette UK

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• Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Europe, Southern, Done

  "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.

  Anne Bronte

  Eye, Rose, May

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• I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Storm, Mountain, Wave

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.630, Macmillan

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• Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Heart

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.6, NavPress

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• Oh, my god," Augustus said. "i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes." "i was thirteen," i said again, although of course i was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately.

  John Green

  Girl, Believe, Thinking

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• --I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.

  David James Duncan

  Letting Go, Believe, Hands

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• He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Kissing, Hands

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• He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

  Walter Isaacson

  Knowing, People, Approval

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Adventure, Men

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

  China Mieville

  Fall, Dark, Journey

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• Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Glimpse, Body, Honestly

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• I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

  Markus Zusak

  Giving, Feelings, Pulse

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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