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• When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Eye, Wrinkles

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.51, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Needs

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Zsadist, Tragedy

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• She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Powerful, Mirrors, Telescopes

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

  David Nicholls

  Lying, Adventure, Soul

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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• There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

  Tim LaHaye

  Self, Ruts, Persons

  Tim LaHaye, Ed Hindson (2010). “Seduction of the Heart”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Home, Tired, Heart

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.47, Macmillan

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• The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Sky, Wings

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• And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.

  Patrick Ness

  Letting Go, Boys, Tears

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• Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Crazy, Yummy, Jumping

  "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Blow

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

  Regina Doman

  Battle, Were Meant To Be, Danger

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• There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Kindness, Thinking, Rocks

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• This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.

  Lucy Grealy

  Vanishing, Faces, Unbearable

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?

  Cassandra Clare

  Dresses, Looks, Helping

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• When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Marine

  "Cannery Row".

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• I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He Says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Eye, Winning

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• I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

  Susan Hill

  Night, Paper, Desks

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To”

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• Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.

  Lauren Kate

  Angel, Past, Wings

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Fallen in Love”, p.201, Random House

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• I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

  Holly Black

  Cat, Kissing, Airports

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Lying, Heart

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Perfect

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.817, Library of America

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• I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Prayer, Men, Religion

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• Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a ‘healing’ cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are ‘healed’ by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Healing, Blessing, Lds

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