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• Try asking for Nyx's help." "Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons." "During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?" "Not once," he said "Then how do you know she's not listening to you?

  P. C. Cast

  Listening, Trying, Asking

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• Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dancer, Mind, Shots

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• He stole my breathe away the moment we first spoke. He's my air." -Sadie White

  Abbi Glines

  Air, White, Firsts

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• Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. "dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Talking, Sea

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• The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Desire, Gondor

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.464, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My gran's going do kill be," said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, "dat was by dad's old wand.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Doors, Blood

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• Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

  James Joyce

  Prayer, Confused, Heart

  James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners”, p.27, First Avenue Editions

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• We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his bicep... and chest... and tattoo. Never thought the sun could be so... sexy. Wow. This was awkward. "You running over me, me almost running over you?" Cam elaborated. "It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

  J. Lynn

  Tattoo, Sexy, Running

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• A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
  ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him:
  "You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not mention it so much. It is always the purchaser who first disparages what he wants to buy. If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because, as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently."

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Evil

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• It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

  Bernadette Peters

  Girl, Spring, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

  Lucinda Williams

  Independent, Ideas, People

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• God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he
  slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Men, Somewhere Else

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• To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.

  Hugo Chavez

  Doubt, World, Haunting

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• Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Plato, Mean

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 04, 2016

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• We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

  Julius Nyerere

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

  Melina Marchetta

  Character, Aunt, Thinking

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• I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

  Sharad Pawar

  Girl, College, Village

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• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, People, Judgement

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Praise, Accord

  Oliver Goldsmith (1850). “Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Citizen of the world, Poetical works, etc”, p.111

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• Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Two Of Me, Envy, Self Love

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• More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Men, White Man

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Whole Life, Single Word

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• In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Passion

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.3

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