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• But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

  Jeannette Walls

  Giving, Silence, Tree

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Wan February with weeping cheer,
  Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
  Down misty roads of mire and rime,
  Before thy pale and fitful face
  The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
  Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
  Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
  But lit with hopes that light the year's.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Morning, Cheer, Eye

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Wall, Cutting, Kissing

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• The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick stripe down his whip-like tail were still gray. He was crawling along the ceiling like a bat, wings held to make sharp angles and claws extended. It just about broke my creepy meter.

  Kim Harrison

  Wings, White, Long

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• Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

  Katherine Applegate

  Book, Long, Homework

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• Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Names, Voice, Choices

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• I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

  John Green

  Dad, Home, Feelings

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Penguin

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• ... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.

  Rachel Joyce

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed.” “Potted and splificated?” “Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

  Libba Bray

  Zebras, Night, Skins

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• Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.

  Lynn Austin

  Eyebrows, Circles, Two

  Lynn Austin (2016). “The Chronicles of the Kings Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.129, Baker Books

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• He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Worry, Dining

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• Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

  Rick Riordan

  Swimming, Hair, Trying

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• Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

  Ronald Blythe

  Long, People, Special

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• Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

  Tom Kundig

  Art, Wall, Block

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• Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.

  Jaejoong

  Two, People, Romance

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• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

  John Milton

  Summer, Retirement, Plato

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Graduation, Needs

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

  James Keller

  Country, Blow, People

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• There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Matter, Frustrating, Misconception

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• Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Disappointment, Stress, Long

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• The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on God in the thick of the fight. It comes to the one who tarries for the vision in faith. It comes to the one who believes that he who waits upon the Lord shall never be confounded. It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him. It is faith which turns distress into singing.

  Alan Redpath

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  "The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David".

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• Even through the darkest phase
  Be it thick or thin
  Always someone marches brave
  Here beneath my skin

  K. D. Lang

  Brave, Skins, Phases

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• I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

  Tana French

  Wall, Glasses, Skills

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• Sorry,” he said, his voice thick and gruff. “It’s morning and you’re sitting on me. That’s a combination meant to bring any man down.

  J. Lynn

  Morning, Sorry, Men

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• He’d wanted all of me and that’s what I’d given him. Did it mean I had nothing left? “No,” he muttered, voice thick with passion. “You have me, and I love you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Love You, Passion, Mean

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