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• Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

  Obert Skye

  Two, Would Be, Stories

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• I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. "Thought you weren't into internal pollution," I said. Lately Ranger'd been on a health food thing. "Props," Ranger told me. "Didn't want to look out of place." I didn't want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn't look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman.

  Janet Evanovich

  Coffee, Eyebrows, Would Be

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• ...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

  David Brin

  Past, Drawing, Looks

  David Brin (2011). “Kil'n People”, p.399, Hachette UK

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• He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

  Holly Black

  Lying, Waiting, Twins

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought.

  Janette Rallison

  Hurt, Needs, Planning

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• The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Strong, Loss, Men

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• Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick) (Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.) Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, Thinking, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.

  James McBride

  Children, Hate, Believe

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• Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wind, Sky, One Day

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• What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

  Jodi Picoult

  What If, Vanishing, Moments

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Thinking, Doors

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.

  Markus Zusak

  Kindness, Book, Taken

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• And he don't know...that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.

  Carrie Underwood

  Thinking, Names, Keys

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• But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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• I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

  Barack Obama

  War, Men, Progress

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.322, Canongate Books

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• It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

  Jim Carroll

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

  Sam Harris

  Rely Upon, Intuition, World

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.

  Katherine Applegate

  Mcdonalds, Earth, Aliens

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• We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

  William Faulkner

  Maybe Next Time, Next Time

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• Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love Is, Thinking, Pieces

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1994). “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: And Other Stories”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

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• A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Order, Next Steps, Way

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• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Crazy, Order, Years

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• Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

  Robert Baer

  Fall, Egypt, Middle East

  "A Revolution in the Making?" by Aladdin Elaasar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Psychological, Wanted, Best Things

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.

  Miranda July

  Couple, Hands, Bored

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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