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• How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

  Margo Lanagan

  Children, Different, Shapes

  Margo Lanagan (2012). “The Brides of Rollrock Island”, p.34, Random House

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• Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

  Julian Barnes

  Eye, Elderly, World

  Julian Barnes (2010). “England, England”, p.258, Random House

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• [Qhuinn looking a Blay] A tear escaped from that eye . Welling up along the lower lid, it coalesced at the far corner, formed a crystal circle, and grew so fat it couldn’t hold on to the lashes. Slipping free, it meandered downward, getting lost in dark hair at the temple.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Dark, Hair

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.377, Penguin

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• It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

  David Abram

  Character, Years, Tree

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.35, Vintage

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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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• How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.

  Ann Brashares

  Expression, Waiting, Serious

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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• What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.

  Michael Grant

  Stupid, Snakes, Wings

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• Friends of yours, eh?" I think one of them's about to faint." Oh, my god. "That's Chloe Dale," I said without turning arouind. "She suffers from high oestrogen levels. I can introduce you if you like." Gideon's smile grew wilder. "Maybe I'll take you up on that some other time. Now, come on. We still have a lot to do today." He took my arm (a loud squel could be heard from the steps and guided me towards the limousine.

  Kerstin Gier

  Thinking, Suffering, Steps

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• We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.

  Franny Billingsley

  Wine, Ideas, Two

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.168, A&C Black

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• They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Mind, Links

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• There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

  Gayle Forman

  Heart, Airports, Doctors

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.71, Penguin

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• We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

  Julie Otsuka

  Dream, Weight, Bleeding

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• I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

  Robert Jordan

  Strong Women, Boys, Weak Man

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• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

  Lucinda Williams

  Independent, Ideas, People

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• Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

  John Green

  Fall, Cells, Together

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.181, Penguin

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• I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall... “And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer.” “Twice,” added the voice under the table.

  Garth Nix

  Voice, Keys, Long

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #4: Sir Thursday”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

  Pete Sampras

  People, Tennis, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  People, Adults, Purpose

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• The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Kings, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shape—a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.

  Janet Frame

  Cutting, Men, Hair

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• Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Strong, Spring, Land

  Vladimir Nabokov (1970). “Mary: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

  Hal Borland

  Symbolism, Apples, Happiness And Love

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• Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Illusion, Grew Up, Succulents

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.126, Pelekanos Books

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• I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

  Matt Groening

  Tree, Vegetarian, Ifs

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• So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

  Veronica Roth

  You Like It, Grew Up, Lost

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