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• the wheel of fate crushes us all

  Kami Garcia

  Fate, Wheels

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• They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Islands, Worry

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.67, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Am I crazy or falling in love? Is it really just another crush?

  David Archuleta

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Love Is

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• Who are you?" he asked. "I'm a shabti, of course!" The figurine rubbed his dented head. He still looked quite lumpish, only now he was a living lump. "Master calls me Doughboy, though I find the name insulting. You may call me Supreme-Force-Who-Crushes-His-Enemies!

  Rick Riordan

  Names, Insulting, Enemy

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

  Voltaire

  Voice, Knowing, Spokes

  Voltaire (2003). “Candide”, p.16, Bantam Classics

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• His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

  Lev Grossman

  Depressing, Relief, Gone

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.57, Penguin

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• Most people don't get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to pay for this one thing. This relationship is an impulse buy, and you'll figure out if it's worth it later.

  Sloane Crosley

  Break Up, Mean, People

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.120, Penguin

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• It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

  Leif Enger

  War, Believe, Numbers

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.166, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?

  Daniel Handler

  People, Soldier, Giants

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• The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely, burying his face in her fragrant hair. "Jenny, I love you." She melted against him, molding her body to the rigid contours of his, offering her lips up for his fierce, devouring kiss, then she took his face between both her hands. Leaning back slightly against his arm, her melting blue eyes gazing deeply into his, his wife replied in a shaky voice, "I think, my lord, I love you more.

  Judith McNaught

  Love You, Eye, Kissing

  Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Girl, Heart, Boys

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Blood Roses”, Harper Collins

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• I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out," Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?

  Katy Perry

  School, Thinking, Class

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• I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stars, Laughter, Love You

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

  Irvine Welsh

  Eye, Soul, Bats

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.117, Random House

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• She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.

  Lev Grossman

  Dog, Song, Bad Day

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• You're attracted to him," Kylie said. "And don't try to deny it. You've even admitted that much to me." "Okay, I won't deny that. He's got that whole hard body, vampire magnetism going for him. But when I was young, I had a crush on Big Bird. That wouldn't have worked out either.

  C.C. Hunter

  Bird, Vampire, Trying

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• He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.

  Lee Child

  Dream, Wall, Pain

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.508, Delacorte Press

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• She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)

  Maureen Johnson

  Parent, Levels, Bunnies

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• Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

  Anderson Cooper

  Children, Stories, Weight

  Anderson Cooper (2008). “Dispatches from the Edge: Memoir of War, Disasters, & Survival”, Harper Paperbacks

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• Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

  Voltaire

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, November 28, 1762.

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Gratitude, Feelings, Irony

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Mean, Toil

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• He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Past, Giving

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Hands, Poison

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• Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

  Thomas Hardy

  Errors, Wish, Doe

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.23, 谷月社

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