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• A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, Flower, Compassion

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

  Richelle Mead

  Ideas, Voice, Needs

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.169, Penguin

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• so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Believe, Cat, Tree

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• Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Country, Children, Men

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• I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you."

  Stephanie Perkins

  Love, Hands, Honest

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.191, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

  Cassandra Clare

  Falling In Love, Voice, Stubborn

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1620, Simon and Schuster

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• One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?

  Ted Hughes

  Spring, Ideas, Giving

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• I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mirrors, Mouths, Bleeding

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• And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.

  Jenny Downham

  Cancer, Lying, Kids

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

  Cornel West

  Addiction, Seductive, Black History

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• Thou art a very ragged Wart.

  William Shakespeare

  Hilarious, Art, Warts

  William Shakespeare, Bowdler (1823). “The family Shakspeare”, p.247

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• ...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.

  Eoin Colfer

  Doe, Aprons, Waiter

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Clouds, Black

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”

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• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mom, Heart, Men

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• A man is an island, but the water is deep
  And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep
  To look for perfection is a lonely old ride
  It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride
  When you look for independence and you get what you want
  How come you look back, thinking what have I done?
  But time and again, it dawns on me
  It's the price we pay for liberty
  I should have know, we all need a place to call home

  Joey Tempest

  Song, Lonely, Home

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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Jesus, Moving, Dark

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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• do you have to sit so close?" she asked on a ragged breath. "Yes." was his only reply. "want to tell me why?" "no." (Darius replied) "i don't like it." She insisted scooting from him for the second time. He moved closer "want to tell me why?" he parroted. "No" she parroted right back.

  Gena Showalter

  Want, Darius, Moved

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• Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

  Harper Lee

  Missing, Denim, Literature

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must’ve looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. “How’s it going?” I said. “I’ll take the stairs.” He hurried off.

  Rick Riordan

  Dirty, Kids, Eye

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• The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.

  Rick Bass

  Heart, Men, Wire

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• I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Ideas, Voice

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• I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Stupid, Dirty

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Loss, Thinking

  Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.129, Anchor

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