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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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• You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Giving, Thumbs, Ruth

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “True To Form”, p.283, Random House

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There’s an us?” “As far as I’m concerned…” He leaned forward, his mouth inches from mine, and my pulse spiked. “There’s nothing but us.

  Rachel Vincent

  Mouths, Inches, Concerned

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.232, Harlequin

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• Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Long Ago, Giving

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.47, OUP Oxford

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• In other words, my pot doesn't work?" "It doesn't have a pulse," he says. "I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check?

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Pot, Checks, Wrists

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• To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Space, Forever, Devil

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• I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Next

  "The Sense of an Ending". Book by Julian Barnes (Page 122), www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Brother, Children, Sorry

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I'm utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand. "For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me. "Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water. "For luck," I say to his startled face.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beach, Kissing, Hands

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• He said his friend Victor called it a lucky charm, and that it kept him safe in Iraq." She felt her pulse pick up tempo, and she brought her face close to Ben's. "Did you say Victor called it a lucky charm?" "Uh-huh." Ben nodded. "That's what he said." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." Beth stared at her son, feeling at war with herself.

  Nicholas Sparks

  War, Son, Lucky Charms

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.210, Hachette UK

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• Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie." The other girls let out a collective gasp. My pulse quickened from "slow walk" to "fifty-meter-dash." I turned and found that-yes, indeed-the god Anubis had crashed our dance.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Voice, Anubis

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• Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

  Marianne Williamson

  Passion, Writing, Knows

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• I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

  Markus Zusak

  Crush, Giving, Feelings

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• Trent looked me up and down. “Is that all you’re going to do?” My pulse quickened, and I gazed at the front of the basilica where the scratching was coming from. “I might have a snack later if nothing comes through those doors.

  Kim Harrison

  Doors, Snacks, Might

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• One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

  Joseph Conrad

  Fingers

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Years, Generations

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm losing my mind without you.” His lips were gliding down my neck, his tongue stroking over my racing pulse. He sucked on my skin and pleasure radiated through me. “I can’t think. I can’t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.

  Sylvia Day

  Sleep, Thinking, Racing

  FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 23, 2013

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• The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Air, Vitality, Impression

  Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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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