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• Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sorcery, Flavor, Sauce

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1143, Bantam

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• He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

  Haruki Murakami

  Departed, Mind, Depth

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• Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Kissing, Smell

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• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Tea, Pillars

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• Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Book, Writing

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• Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

  Lauren Oliver

  Baby, Pain, Past

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled. "To be the little spoon.

  Karen Chance

  Littles, Awake, Ifs

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.275, Penguin

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• Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed you honey from a silver spoon. Of course, you wouldn't be able to make all your high-minded judgments if you were a fallen woman...but you wouldn't care. Because I would pleasure you, Hannah, every night, all night, until you forgot your own name. Until you were willing to do things that would shock you in the light of day. I would debauch you from your head down to your innocent little toes-" "Oh, I despise you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Miserable, Jean Valjean

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• He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

  Louis Sachar

  Lakes, Breakfast, Shovels

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.48, Yearling

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• Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Summer, Clouds, Eggs

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.110, Egmont UK

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• The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?

  Ilona Andrews

  Drinking, Doctors, Tea

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.208, Penguin

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• She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

  Marisha Pessl

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
  To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day.
  To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,
  To muse, and spill her solitary tea,
  Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon,
  Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Morning, Prayer

  'Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation' (of King George I, 1715) (1717)

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• You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

  Mick Jagger

  Good Morning, Looks, Wake Up

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• The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Christian, Past, Men

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• For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Coffee, Eye

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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• He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.

  Jacques Prevert

  Coffee, White, Tea

  'Dèjeuner du Matin'

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• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Passion, Garden

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

  Kris Carr

  Mom, Being Yourself, Being Single

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• We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Witty, Science, Men

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• If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

  Christopher Meloni

  Reality, Trying, Enough

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• Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

  Theodore Zeldin

  Gun, People, Bombs

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.96, Random House

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• When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

  Josei Toda

  Inspirational, Sad, Past

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• The sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Coffee, Sun

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