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• Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell

  Suzanne Collins

  Laughing, Guy, Leaving

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

  Cassandra Clare

  Names, Way, Hearing

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Children, Fall

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.9, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Vincent Price (1959). “I Like what I Know: A Visual Autobiography”

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• The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Cutting, Hair, Knives

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Saws, Firsts

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• I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?" "Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue--" "Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat. In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Congratulations, Perfectly Good

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.422, MIRA

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• Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.

  Nora Roberts

  Kissing, Hands, Breathing

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• I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

  Holly Black

  Stars, Sky, People

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• I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

  Ewan McGregor

  Golf, Yesterday, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.

  Nicole Krauss

  Wish, Sitting, Way

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.

  Josh Lanyon

  Book, Home, Doors

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• You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

  Sarah Hall

  Kissing, Suffering, Firsts

  Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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• The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Book, School, Hadrian

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Romance, Firsts, Intimacy

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.599, Dell

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• And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Sorry, Eye

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• If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

  Orson Scott Card

  Valentine, Today, Firsts

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.15, Macmillan

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• You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Awful, Firsts, Luther

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.205, Penguin

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• From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

  Megan Hart

  Stories, Months, Firsts

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• For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed." "What? A sense of decency?

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Valentine, Body

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, Hands, Friendly

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• I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Thinking, Clothes

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Spring, Rain

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Winter, Night

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.91, Penguin

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• Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept together for the very first time she looked up at me with her chocolate-brown, trustworthy doe eyes and said, "I've got herpes. I thought you should know.

  Caprice Crane

  Heart, Eye, Soul

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