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• Do you recall Fred Merriville?” She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?” “The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!

  Georgette Heyer

  Praying, Poor, Alas

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Frederica”, p.61, Random House

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• Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. She’s very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I see the same qualities in Captain Phelan.” “Yes,” Amelia said. “You’re absolutely right, Catherine. Put that way, the match does seem more appropriate.” “I still have reservations,” Leo said. “You always do,” Amelia replied. “If you’ll recall, you objected to Cam in the beginning, but now you’ve accepted him.” “That’s because the more brothers-in-law I acquire,” Leo said, “the better Cam looks by comparison.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Brother, Distance, Law

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.157, Macmillan

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• One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Greatness, Childhood, Doe

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• He would remember their kiss forever. She wouldn’t recall him at all.’ (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kissing, Forever, Remember

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.25, Macmillan

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• As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

  Tamora Pierce

  Mean, Two, Tree

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• I couldn't recall the last time I'd seen that much of him on display. It was wonderful and frightening on the same time. I then said the stupidest thing possible. "You're not scared of anything." "I'm scared of a lot of things. I was scared for you" He released me, and I stepped back. There was still passion and worry written all over him. "I'm not perfect, I'm not invulnerable.

  Richelle Mead

  Passion, Perfect, Worry

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.486, Penguin

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• Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.

  Haruki Murakami

  Revenge, Yield, Cost

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• And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Darkness, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 08, 2016

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• I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Believe, Hero, Alternatives

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “A Princess of Mars (Science Fiction Classic): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Barsoom Series, Llana of Gathol, Pirates of Venus, The Land That Time Forgot & Pellucidar”, p.11, e-artnow

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• Are you okay?" I sighed,my sodden coat chilling me to the bone. "Peachy.Made a new friend." He pulled me up by the hand,unzipping my coat and yanking it off me. "Shirt,too,please." "No!" "It's only fair. I seem to recall you making me strip the first time we met.

  Kiersten White

  Hands, Firsts, Coats

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• But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, Real, Kids

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.469, Penguin

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• But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

  Julie Gregory

  Memories

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• But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.

  Julie Gregory

  Memories, Wrinkles, Forever

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• Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.

  Eric Schlosser

  Softball, Animal, Government

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Long, Remembrance

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.564, Race Point Pub

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• I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

  Richard Wright

  Knowing, Another Chance, Awful

  Richard Wright (2009). “Black Boy”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Regret, Heart, Curiosity

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• I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Knows

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

  Annie Dillard

  Damage, Difficult

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Real, Passion

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• As I recall, I was still dressed when I fell asleep." "Just making sure you were comfortable." "And making yourself equally comfortable, I see.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Stills, Comfortable

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.378, Vintage Canada

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• This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.

  Sara Zarr

  Memories, Hands, Years

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• I recall the look in Rhauk's eyes the moment he spotted Kate. It will stay with me forever, carved into my brain like an engraving on a headstone. It's as if he found something he treasured, something he's been looking for all his life.

  Marianne Curley

  Eye, Forever, Brain

  Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.135, A&C Black

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• Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  Karen Chance

  Fun, Beer, Night

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.241, Penguin

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