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• That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

  J. K. Rowling

  Missing, Gryffindor, Know It All

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• At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

  Louis Sachar

  Zero, Way, Worried

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• Dear God, surely you aren't the chef Sam was talking about?" "No," he said with a laugh, and gestured behind him with a thumb. "Cale here is." "Kale?" Alex echoed blankly, her eyes sliding to the still half-closed door. She didn't see any evidence of a second man. Frowning, she set the phone back in its receiver and leaned to the side, trying to see out into the kitchen as she muttered, "Kale is a vegetable.

  Lynsay Sands

  Eye, Men, Talking

  Lynsay Sands (2010). “Hungry For You: An Argeneau Novel”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• I know what you said! My mother would never have belonged to something like that. Some kind of-some kind of hate group." "It wasn't-," Jace began, but Hodge cut him off. "I doubt," he said slowly, as if the words pained him, "that she had much choice." Clary stared. "What are you talking about? Why wouldn't she have had a choice?" "Because," said Hodge, "she was Valentine's wife.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Hate, Valentine

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Wall, Writing, Winter

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• Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, People, Discouraging

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

  William Trevor

  Running, People, Running Away

  William Trevor (2009). “Love and Summer”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of not. Like you’re telling the person there’s nothing unique about what they’re saying I considered this as a couple of kids on Rollerblades whizzed past, hockey sticks over their shoulders. “Yeah,” I said, finally, “but you could also look at it the other way. Like no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Mean, Kids

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• Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.

  John Flanagan

  Thinking, Likes, Halt

  John Flanagan (2011). “Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice Book 9)”, p.443, Random House

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• Hey, Sydney. I thought I saw your car out there." He glanced around. "Is, uh, Jill with you?" "Not today." I said. New insight struck me as I recalled that Lee attended school in Los Angeles. "Lee, have you ever dated a human girl at your school?" Adrian arched an eyebrow. "Are you asking him out, Sage?" I scowled. "No!

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, School, Eyebrows

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.90, Penguin

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• I don't want to. Believe me. But I can't help it. Rose said in time, I'll learn the control to keep his feelings out, but I can't do it now. And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place. What happened between him and Rose . . . it tears him apart.

  Richelle Mead

  Grief, Believe, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.131, Penguin

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• Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Drinking, Hobbies

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.152, Penguin

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• Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

  Richelle Mead

  Two, Doe, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.140, Penguin

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• 'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

  H. G. Wells

  War, Fleeing, Madness

  "The Door in the Wall".

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• How?" I demanded. "How could you have screwed this one up?" "When I got in, they said the manager was on the phone and would be a few minutes. So, I sat down and ordered a drink." This time, I did lean my forehead against the steering wheel. "What did you order?" "A martini." "A martini." I lifted my head. "You ordered a martini before a job interview." "It's a bar, Sage. I figured they'd be cool with it.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Phones, Order

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• I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Firsts, Born, They Said

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• I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Happy Endings, Sometimes, Supposed To Be

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.730, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think he likes you" Miranda Whispered. Realizing she and Derek had drawn attention, she glanced away. "He's probably just curious about me like everyone else" she whispered back. "Nope. He's hot for you" Della said, reminding Kylie of the supernatural hearing of some of the campers. "When he was sitting by you at lunch, he oozed so much testosterone that it was hard to breathe. He wants your body" Della teased. "Well, he's not getting it" Kylie said.

  C.C. Hunter

  Thinking, Lunch, Hot

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Born at Midnight”, p.80, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.

  Amy Winehouse

  Goodbye, Black, Hundred

  Song: Back To Black, Album: Back to Black, 2007

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• Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

  John Flanagan

  Inspirational, Eyebrows, Everyday

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• Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Flower, Voice, Office

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Butterfly, Hands

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• Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made.

  John Crowley

  Clever, Children, Knowing

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