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Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.

Cassandra Clare

Princess, Kissing, Kiss Me

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He’s body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he’s punched in the throat

Gena Showalter

Country, Cities, People

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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Silence, Sticks, Speak

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

Julie Anne Peters

Song, Hurt, Cutting

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His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Angela Carter

Two, Rubies, Chokers

Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

John Fowles

Girl, Thinking, Singing

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Al's voice was faint but resolute. "Stand up. Try to look sexy." "In a bedsheet?" I complained, running my hands down it. "How can I look sexy in a bedsheet?" He cleared his throat, and I grimaced. "Never mind.

Kim Harrison

Sexy, Running, Hands

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Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting a shrimp wonton between his chopsticks. "It falls on the ninth full moon if each year." "Ah, how lovely for you to base your holidays on the cycles of my planet." Kai wanted to scoff at the word planet but sucked it back down his throat.

Marissa Meyer

Fall, Holiday, Moon

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After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

Max Brooks

Hands, Ass, Stills

Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.266, Broadway Books

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You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought

Cassandra Clare

Giving, Want, Messages

Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1177, Simon and Schuster

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I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

Truman Capote

Nice, Cutting, Gentleman

"In Cold Blood". Book by Truman Capote, 1965.

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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

Margaret Atwood

Cutting, Forever

Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.

Nalini Singh

Heart, Eye, Angel

Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.90, Penguin

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Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

Marie Lu

Knives, Efficiency, Slits

Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.

Veronica Roth

Running, Forget Everything, Volunteer

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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

Nature, People, Bird

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

John Boyes

Peace, Voice, Violence

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Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

Thomas Huxley

Determination, Past, Men

Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

William Butler Yeats

Lying, Drinking, Home

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I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

Carl Sandburg

Baseball, Song, Player

Carl Sandburg, “Hits And Runs”

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There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of blasphemy which I used for so many years. I've used many other organs to blaspheme as well if it comes to that.

Christopher Hitchens

Atheist, Should Have, Years

"Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". "Newsnight" with Jeremy Paxman, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

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I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Education, Country, Medicine

Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Joseph Carrington Cabell (1856). “Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell”, p.366

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Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat !

Shaka

Enemy, Behinds

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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

Georgette Heyer

Heart, Hands, Looks

Georgette Heyer (1939). “Royal Escape”

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I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

Mackenzie Crook

Knives, Wife, Car

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