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• Nothing less than 7 inches.

  Cassandra Clare

  Innuendo

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• No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

  Simon R. Green

  Likes, Defining, Losing

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.93, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. "Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?" "He did," Alec confirmed. "I've never seen anything like it." "I've never seen anything like this." Jace lifted a ten-inch dagger from the floor. One of Isabelle's pink brassiers was spread on the wickedly sharp tip. Isabelle snached it off, scowling.

  Cassandra Clare

  Feet, Daggers, Jace

  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.765, Simon and Schuster

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• A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy

  Patricia Briggs

  Strong, Giving, Desire

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• Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Half, Gryffindor

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• And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Home, Journey

  "Seeking a Spiritual Home" by Katherine Towler, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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• What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Two, Long

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.28, New World Library

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• The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Men, Way

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• RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply huge, operatic voice, a diminutive powerhouse who prowled the stage like a feline elf and who was, it turns out, also finely intelligent and well spoken, an actual gentleman in a genre known all too well for its bombastic, monosyllabic doltbuckets. A rare thing indeed.

  Mark Morford

  Eye, Intelligent, Voice

  "All kneel before the devil horns". www.sfgate.com. May 19, 2010.

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• My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Moving, Book, Opportunity

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches from my throat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Breathing, Necks

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• They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, People, Lame

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• The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Creativity, Exercise, Simple

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

  J.R. Ward

  Doors, Sometimes, Beats

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• Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. At the level of perceptual categorizations, we have reached a land of mental representations quite distant from the layers of the world just inches away from their place inside the skull. This is the reason why each of us experiences a unique way of minding the world. (pp. 166-167)

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Unique, Past, Reality

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.226, Guilford Publications

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• I’m no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra) She’s right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed .38 Special. (Katra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, Special, Weapons

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• Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

  Walt Whitman

  Air, Miracle, Age

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• The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Prayer, Recovery, Angel

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• And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.

  Meg Rosoff

  Feelings, Brain, Alive

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• No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

  Paul Auster

  Dark, Thinking, Missing

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.187, Penguin

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• notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

  e. e. cummings

  Moon, Orange, Evening

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Father, Worry, Taught

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Voices of Dragons”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Lying, Heart, Difficult Work

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• Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

  Rachel Caine

  Squares, Scotland, Titles

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.144, Penguin

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