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• I want to see you again." He stopped, took her face in his hands. "I need to see you again." Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. "Roarke, what's going on here?" "Lieutenant." He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. "indications are we're having a romance.

  Nora Roberts

  Hands, Romance, Needs

  "Naked in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, 1995.

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• Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

  Edward Bernays

  Mind, Modern Business, Opinion

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long blonde hair at 8:03, and your pulse-lightning breasts at 11:17, and your rose-meow smile at 5:30, i know i'm right.

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, Hair, Long

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He'd been so angry at her -always pushing his buttons, that girl. But then he'd taken her into his arms, and all that anger had blazed into a darker, hotly possessive need that had urged him to bend his head, bite down on the throbbing pulse in her neck, leave a mark.

  Nalini Singh

  Girl, Taken, Buttons

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• Sean reaches out between us and takes my wrist. He press his thumb on my pulse. My heartbeat trips and surges against his skin. I'm pinned by his touch, a sort of fearful magic. We stand and stand, and I wait for my pulse against his finger to slow, but it doesn't Finally, he releases my wrist and says," I'll see you on the cliffs tomorrow.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Waiting, Magic, Skins

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• Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Important, Generations, Today

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1386, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not I'm brave enough to go into the stall with Corr after yesterday morning, after I've had time to think about what happened. The thought of it makes my pulse trip. The question is not if I trust Corr. The question is if I trust Sean.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Morning, Eye, Thinking

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.272, Scholastic UK

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• In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.

  Isaac Marion

  Echoes, Palms, Feels

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises seemed to pulse with my heartbeat.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hands, Color, Irises

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.20, Harlequin

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• Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

  Tamora Pierce

  Ocean, Sea, Voice

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Circle of Magic #1: Sandry's Book”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why is this so hard?” I whispered. His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.

  Rachel Vincent

  Fighting, Admission, Hard

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• I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

  Rick Riordan

  Doors, Sweat, Risk

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• She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Hands, Beats

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• ... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

  Robin Sloan

  Long, Giants, Empires

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.79, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. “Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.” “Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, June, Hands

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

  Angela Carter

  Sweet, Heart, Night

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• You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Happened, Deep Down

  Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.

  Monica Drake

  Suicide, Baby, Heart

  Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.65, Hawthorne Books

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• If she were (looking into my eyes), she’d have seen how absolutely floored I was the first time I finally, truly saw her. The clouds moved at just the right moment, fully lighting her face by the moon. She was dazzlingly beautiful. Underneath thick lashes were eyes blue as ice, something cool to balance out the flames in her hair. I felt a strange flutter in my chest, like the glow of a fireplace or the warmth of the afternoon. It stayed there for a moment, playing with my pulse.

  Kiera Cass

  Beautiful, Eye, Moon

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• He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Daughter, Father, Fall

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• You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing her palm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It's decided you're essential to my existence, you see. And it's threatening to go out on labor strike if I don't make you mine this very day. So yes. I am here on bended knee, acting from a deep, undeniable sense of obligation. I am, quite simply, yours." He swallowed hard. "If you'll have me.

  Tessa Dare

  Sorry, Heart, Hands

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• At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

  Samuel Shem

  Firsts, Procedures, House Of God

  Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.152, Penguin

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• Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Kings, Firsts, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 16, 2013

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• I shift on to my side and find myself looking directly into Gale's eyes. For an instant the world recedes and there is just his flushed face, his pulse visible at his temple, his lips slightly parted as he tries to catch his breath.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Trying, World

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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