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• Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pathetic

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.118, Penguin

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• How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Long, Camels

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Cities, Voice

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Giving, Sun, Gansey

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

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• I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

  Po Bronson

  Hard Times, People, Choices

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• A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Zoos, Rooms

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• Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, People

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!” This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko’s blinding light. “Why would the prince dance with me?” Iko’s fan hummed as she sought an answer. “Because you won’t have grease on your face this time.

  Marissa Meyer

  Stars, Thinking, Light

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• I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.

  Marie Lu

  Ocean, Eye, Thinking

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• We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

  Antonio Damasio

  Morning, Sleep, Self

  "The quest to understand the consciousness". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2011.

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• Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love.

  Malorie Blackman

  Daughter, Special, Shame

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• Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

  John Green

  Water, World, Computer

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• I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Skulls, Care, Staring

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• You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge

  J.R. Ward

  Falling In Love, Love You, Showing Up

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1863, Penguin

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• I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Long

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• Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

  Deb Caletti

  Buttons, Sometimes, Humans

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it crazy right now to say I love you?” She didn’t even pause. “Given that I just stabbed you? Seems a little weird, yeah.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Love You, Littles

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin

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• I don't know who Azazel is," he said. "Isn't he the cat from The Smurfs?" He cast about , but Isabelle just looked up and rolled her eyes at him. "Clary?" he thought Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?" "Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from The Smurfs?" There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurf questions.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Cat, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

  Nick Hornby

  Agreement, Punctuation Marks, Locks

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

  David Levithan

  Stupid, Eye, World Love

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• Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (Pause.) “What are you thinking about?” Me: “You.” Augustus: “What about me?” Me: “‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.’” Augustus: “God, you are sexy.” Me: “We could go to your room.” Augustus: “I’ve heard worse ideas.

  John Green

  Sexy, Thinking, Ideas

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.132, Penguin UK

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• Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Bullshit, Happy Endings

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• There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

  James Robertson

  Patience, Long, People

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• The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Hands, Space

  Terry Tempest Williams (2002). “Red: passion and patience in the desert”, Vintage

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• You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?

  Julian Barnes

  Long, Done, Moments

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.149, Random House

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