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• What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.

  Tessa Dare

  Order, Little Sister, Earth

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• Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What are you doing here?" He drew back slightly, looking disappointed. "That isn't really an answer to my question, you know. I was expecting more of a "Hallelujah Chorus.' I mean, it's not every day your boyfriend comes back from the dead." "I already knew you weren't dead." She spoke through numb lips. "I saw you in the library. With--" "Colonel Mustard?" "Sebastian.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Mean, Ice

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• By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.

  James Joyce

  Real, Echoes, World

  James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Dark, Hair

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• He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Talking, Two, Guy

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2012). “Kiss the Dead: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.41, Penguin

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• We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned. Adrian spoke first. "I'm going to assume that means he's flying you to Amsterdam on his private jet. If so, I'd like to come along. But not for the windmills.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Flying, Amsterdam

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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• I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

  Shirley Jackson

  Moon, World, Tongue

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya

  George R. R. Martin

  Friendly

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• I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

  Truman Capote

  Past

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.54, Vintage

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• No,''he said.''I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did...terrible things.'' The words were mild, but the tone of his voice spoke legions. The radiant faces of his family turned sober.''I was lost. Beyond hope. Except...Rose believed in me. Rose never gave up.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Rose, Faces

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• He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.

  Scott Heim

  Cobwebs

  Scott Heim (1995). “Mysterious skin: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We spoke of how to say good-bye,” Jem said. “When Jonathan bid farewell to David, he said, ‘Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us, saying the Lord be between me and thee, forever.’ They did not see each other again, but they did not forget. So it will be with us. When I am Brother Zachariah, when I no longer see the world with my human eyes, I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Heart

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• His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, World, Silver

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1095, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want you skinny, Bride. I like you as you are." His breath tickled her neck as he spoke and sent heat all over her. "My people have a saying. Meat is for the man, the bone is for the dog." "Yeah, but you're both." "And when given a choice between ribs and steak, I go for top choice every time.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, I Like You, Men

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• A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

  Cassandra Clare

  Loss, Remembrance, Mark

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

  Steven Pressfield

  Gold, Steel, Knows

  Steven Pressfield (2010). “Gates Of Fire”, p.87, Random House

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• I know. You could never hid anything. Your eyes always gave you away. You had the most wonderful eyes I'd ever seen." She lifted her head from his shoulder and looked discretely at him. When she spoke, her voice was barely above a whisper. "I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Summer, Eye, Thinking

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• Thank you, Morrigan. This is very helpful," I said, already feeling myself warming up. "And delivered to me entirely without pain." The Morrigan sucker-punched me hard in the face, sending me sprawling in the snow and breaking my nose. "You spoke too soon and with entirely too much sarcasm," she said. "We could have parted with a kiss. Remember that.

  Kevin Hearne

  Pain, Kissing, Sarcasm

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.817, Del Rey

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• I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Minutes, Said

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.119, A&C Black

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• You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.

  Rick Riordan

  Honored, Zoe Nightshade

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me.

  Emilie Autumn

  Cutting, Shining, Speak

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• He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Kissing, Land

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

  Viola Spolin

  Meaningful, Player, Theatre

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• Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of the central figures in two of his most famous parables: the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan. And Jesus himself, as a manifestation of the sacred, is often spoken of as embodying compassion.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Father, Son

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