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• By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. "I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Witty, Giving Up, Drinking

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Plunge, Feels

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.140, Penguin

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• He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Long, Citizens, World

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.66, Schocken

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• It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.

  Ann Brashares

  Fall, Night, Hair

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• My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

  Tamora Pierce

  Knights, Knives, Mistress

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.333, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Sound, Pioneers

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• He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She knew the slope of his cheeks, and the exact shade of his eys, brownish near the iris, melting into green at the edge. And his mouth-she knew that mouth, the look of it, the feel of it. She knew his smile, and she knew his frown, and she knew- she knew far to much.

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Irises, Looks

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Aug 27, 2015

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• My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.

  Lauren Oliver

  Real, Heart, Autumn

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• For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Sleep, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.617, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, Annabeth, Want

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

  Nora Roberts

  Want, Needs, Twins

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Sweet Revenge”, p.355, Bantam

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• There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Impatient, Plunge

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.398, Broadview Press

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• The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Sea, Strange

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Genius, Mystery, Abyss

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• I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably romantic if he'd had he courage to look into my face and say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boot in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. "I haven't stopped.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Long, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.

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• Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung from one bedpost, a lacy white bra from another. Simon averted his eyes. The curtains were drawn, the lamps extinguished. Isabelle flopped down on the edge of the bed and looked at him with bitter amusement. "A blushing vampire. Who would have guessed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, White, Clothes

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Lying, Class, Names

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• It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

  Rob Thurman

  Moon, Land, Names

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• A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

  Kate Morton

  Wall, Lips, Ancient

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, Pushing Each Other, Causes

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• All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, to you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

  Rick Riordan

  Cupcakes, Trying, Pushing Each Other

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• The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stars, Sky, Purple

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.76, Penguin Group

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• Leave the girl alone, Clete, and let's get back on the road," the tall driver said, and his voice had that "I'm done with you" edge to it. "I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think he changes into a nutria.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Thinking, Voice

  Charlaine Harris (2006). “Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.186, Penguin

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• It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

  Gayle Forman

  Funeral, Good Things, Said

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.81, Penguin

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• Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Goal, Understanding

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