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• In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Clouds, Leaving, Splinters

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands." "If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you.

  Melissa Marr

  Heart, Cutting, Hands

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• Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

  Joseph Heller

  Hate, Differences, Matter

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.377, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Life, Sweet

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• The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.

  Randy Alcorn

  Law, Giving, Enemy

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• Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

  Annie Dillard

  Connections

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.97, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

  Fred Durst

  People, Band, Want

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• The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

  Tim Cook

  Names, World, Given

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• I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

  Meg Cabot

  Men, Shoes, Trying

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• What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Fire, Teeth

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Feels

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• Come near me and I'll rip your wings off and beat you with them.

  Rachel Vincent

  Wings, Beats

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers Volume Four: With All My Soul\Fearless\Niederwald\Last Request”, p.299, Harlequin

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• In my time,” he said, “they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you?” Causing him to rip open wounds that had stayed safely scabbed over for so long that, most of the time, he managed to forget they existed. Her hands, so very, very gentle, continued to hold his face as she tugged him down until their foreheads touched. “I’m no witch, Dmitri. If I was, I’d know how to fix you.

  Nalini Singh

  Hands, Long, Honor

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.1122, Penguin

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• Killing rips the soul apart.

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Killing

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• The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Shadow, Tools, Use

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Opposites, People, Evil

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• Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Teenage, Fighting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.43, Macmillan

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• It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.

  Bette Greene

  Pain, Grief, Loss

  Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire

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• Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.

  Barry Lyga

  Children, Block, Stupid

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

  Justina Chen

  Reality, Garden, Chaos

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• Have you ever asked yourself,do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? I've seen things, angel. There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill thier own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don't they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work! And the worst part is, it's almost impossible to retrieve a soul that has been ripped away. Almost." He gave Akiva a keen look."But it can be done, if ever...if ever you decide to go looking for yours."___Izil

  Laini Taylor

  War, Angel, Army

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• No.” He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth. “I can’t give you forever.” The nibbling increased in intensity, leaving a bead of blood in the center of her mouth. “Because we’re not a good match?” Of course she would remember every insult he’d ever thrown at her. “Yes.” “Then what can you give me?” “Here. Now.” Something his body craved more with every second that passed.

  Gena Showalter

  Lying, Blood, Giving

  Gena Showalter (2011). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.114, HQN Books

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• One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

  Conor Oberst

  Inspired, My Favorite, Modern

  "He's wide awake, he's talking". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 7, 2005.

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• Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Pieces, Bleeding

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!

  Laini Taylor

  Army, Boys, Space

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.82, Hachette UK

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