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• The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

  John Flanagan

  Littles, Weapons, Annoying

  John Flanagan (2011). “The Sorcerer in the North (Ranger's Apprentice Book 5)”, p.215, Random House

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• Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.

  William Goldman

  Beach, Love You, Love Is

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.

  Frederick Buechner

  Laughter, Home, Mean

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• My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Home, Thinking

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• At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Jesus, Real

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.47, Random House

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• I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

  Deborah Harkness

  Mean, Vampire, Sound

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

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• It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.

  Holly Black

  Wall, Bangs, Looks

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feelings, Starting Point

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.243, Random House

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• When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Journey, Feelings

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.223, Modern Library

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• As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Fear, Blessed

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Today, Philosopher

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.164, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Querida, it's alright," he said. "No one has hurt me in years." "Hey, you're supposed to be my brother," I said, trying to joke. "Brother's don't hold their sisters' hands or call them querida." Seb smiled, his hazel eyes starting to dance. "Yes, they do," he said. "This happens all the time." "Well I guess things are different in Mexico then," I said. "Because in America, no way. And I'm an American." "But you're in Mexico now," he pointed out. "Right. And you're saying here, boys holds hands with their sisters and call them sweetheart." "Oh yes. We're very friendly, we Mexicans.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Hurt, Brother, Eye

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• Hadrian drew two swords from his sides in a single elegant motion. He flipped one around letting it spin against his palm once. “Need to get a new grip on this one. It’s starting to fray again.” He looked at Will. “Shall we get on with this? I believe you were about to rob us.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Believe, Two, Hadrian

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• I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Pain, Suffering, Facts

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thinking. I feel like a junkie, sick for my next fix and not sure when it will come.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Being In Love, Dark

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Anger, Starting Over

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.49, Robert Kiyosaki

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• She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

  Rachel Caine

  Snacks, Hamburgers, Littles

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.58, Allison & Busby

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• How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my "indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).

  Ally Carter

  Sweet, Reading, Boys

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

  Sara Shepard

  Letting Go, Starting Over, Window

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• It was starting to smell really good in here. And if I liked what it smelled like, then they were liking what they were smelling, and ah…that would be me.

  Kim Harrison

  Smell, Would Be, Ifs

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• I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Thinking, Dust, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Color, Numbers

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Moving, Men

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Guy, Leaving, Obsession

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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