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My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Lying, Fall, Hands

Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.

Maggie Stiefvater

Believe, Right Time, Persons

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He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.

Cassandra Clare

Strong, Eye, Darkness

Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.649, Simon and Schuster

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And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.

Jeanette Winterson

Sweet, Kissing, Focus

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To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always there when you need them. Best of all, this friend doesn’t have any secrets. They trust you to understand them. They take you to their innermost places. They share their sensations and emotions—and they let you experience them. Wherever you go and however you feel, they are always by your side. For an hour, a day, a week, or forever, their life becomes yours. Their story is your story. That’s the kind of book I’m trying to write.

Kevin Brooks

Book, Writing, Your Side

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.

Thomas Hardy

Pain, Grief, Passion

Thomas Hardy (2008). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe

Notes, Hung, Ifs

Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

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There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

Joyce Carol Oates

Believe, Sleep, Greek

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The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles

Love, Memories, War

John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Oscar Wilde

Art, Eye, Personality

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe

Mind, Causes, Bears

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In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications, you are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

Bill Bryson

Morning, Eye, Simple

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Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one has met only three times. One is attracted, yes; but one does not fall in love. A moment's reflection enabled him to diagnose his sensations correctly. This odd impulse to leap across the compartment and kiss Joan was not love. It was merely the natural desire of a good-hearted young man to be decently chummy with his species.

P. G. Wodehouse

Girl, Falling In Love, Kissing

P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.107, The Floating Press

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A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

Ann Aguirre

Heart, Strange, Offers

Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.96, Penguin

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Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

Charlotte Bronte

Heart, Hands, Giving

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.

Nicole Krauss

Empty Rooms, Doors, Self

Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.259, W. W. Norton & Company

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I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

Charles Yu

Confused, Fall, Climbing

Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.63, Vintage

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It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

Jenny Nimmo

Reading, Exceptional

Jenny Nimmo (2011). “The Snow Spider Trilogy”, p.24, Egmont UK

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It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

Janet Evanovich

Wall, Lying, Sitting

Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.

Michael Cunningham

Moving, Reading, Thinking

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Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not. It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love. Edward felt the whole of his china body flood with warmth. (page 128)

Kate DiCamillo

Baby, Done, Bulls

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Man has no individual 'I'. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small 'I's, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, 'I'. And each time his 'I' is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Men, Thinking, Names

"In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

Arlene J. Chai

Air, Space, Missing

Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Caroline Knapp

Spiritual, Real, Alcohol

Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.71, Dial Press

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Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.

Alexander Gordon Smith

Hands, Invisible Hand, Long

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