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Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Daniel Handler

Animal, Sound, Torn Apart

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Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.

Alexandra Adornetto

Fire, Dragons, Breathing

Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.426, Macmillan

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they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

George Orwell

Dog, Mind, Watches

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.

Juliet Marillier

Two, Forests, Return

Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.166, Macmillan

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We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

Denis Johnson

Heart, Chests, Cowardly

Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.11, Macmillan

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I used to think if I married Master Jem—” Sophie picked at the blanket, then looked up and smiled bleakly. “You haven’t broken his heart yet, have you?” “No,” Tessa said. Just torn my own in two. “I haven’t broken his heart at all.

Cassandra Clare

Heart, Thinking, Two

Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.476, Simon and Schuster

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I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

Charles M. Schulz

Desire

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Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.

Andrea Gibson

Fall, Eye, Boys

Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors

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That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

David Levithan

Heart, Mind, Strange

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Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.

Warren Ellis

Night, Honor, Hunters

Warren Ellis (2013). “Gun Machine”, p.192, Hachette UK

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I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

N.K. Jemisin

Heart, Who I Am, Broken

N. K. Jemisin (2015). “The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2016”, p.328, Hachette UK

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Heart turned to me, his face thoughtful. “Yesterday morning. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn’t been home for two days before that.” He smiled at me. “You were supposed to be the Alpha’s eye candy.” Adam laughed. “What?” I asked him. “You don’t think I’d be good eye candy?” I looked down at my overalls and grease-stained hands. I’d torn another nail to the quick. “Honey is eye candy,” said Ben apologetically. “You’re . . . just you.” “Mine,” said Adam, edging between Heart and me. “Mine is what she is.

Patricia Briggs

Eye, Home, Heart

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It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.

Abbi Glines

Drinking, Heart, House

Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

George R. R. Martin

Grateful, Men, Mind

George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.631, Bantam

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It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

Melina Marchetta

Girl, Senior, Sports

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

David Levithan

Book, Together, Pages

David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.23, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind

Janet Frame

Wise, Taken, Listening

Janet Frame (1951). “The lagoon: stories”

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Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Charles Lindbergh

Space, Flying, Use

Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

Karl Kraus

Hate, Humanity, Tears

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

Horace Walpole

Drs, Pieces, Ministers

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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

Samuel Beckett

Eye, Self, Tears

Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Franz Grillparzer

Music, Art, Laughing

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Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.

Martin Lindstrom

Religious, Unique, Color

Source: bobmorris.biz

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Tears are great peace-makers.

Mason Cooley

Tears, Cry, Makers

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Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Lying, Heart, Dust

Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Epitaph On A Jacobite”

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