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• I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm --" "Already dead," said Ron hopefully. Myrtle gave a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and dived headfirst into the toilet, splashing water all over them and vanishing from sight, although from the direction of her muffled sobs, she had come to rest somewhere in the U-bend.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sight, Air, Water

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• Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rose, House, Roaring

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• You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

  François Lelord

  People, Be Careful, Deals

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• We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

  J. K. Rowling

  Threatening Us, Office, Usual

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• You hate me now. I knew you'd be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn't see you die.

  Lynsay Sands

  Hate, Taken, Choices

  Lynsay Sands (2012). “The Renegade Hunter: An Argeneau Vampire Novel”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.

  Rick Riordan

  Cheer, Chewing, Mattresses

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Two, Entrepreneur

  "Innovation and Entrepreneurship".

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• There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Strong, Hurt, Fall

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Baseball, Children, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us aas real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We're no more real than money.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Pain, Real

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• Don’t look so upset,” Hyacinth said, once it was just the two of them again. “You’re quite a catch.” He looked at her assessingly. “Is one meant to say such things quite so directly?” She shrugged. “Not to men one is trying to impress.” “Touché, Miss Bridgerton.” She sighed happily. “My three favorite words.” Of that, he had no doubt.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Favorite Words, Two

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• What an amazing day," Bree said, stretching in her seat. "Thanks to me and my weather charm." I said lightly. Robbie and Hunter both looked at me in alarm. "You didn't," Said Robbie. "You didn't," Said Hunter. I was enjoying this. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't." Hunter looked upset. "You can't be serious!" Cahn't, I thought. Cahn too.

  Cate Tiernan

  Weather, Alarms, Hunters

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• I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Creating, People, Trying

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• What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Thinking, Rude, Trying

  Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three”, p.285, Penguin UK

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• There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

  Mira Grant

  Past, People, One Day

  Mira Grant (2012). “Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

  Deb Caletti

  Grief, People, Doe

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• What the—Have you been crying?" Tohrment demanded. "Are you all right? Dear God, is it the baby?" "Tohr, relax. I'm a female, I cry at matings. It's in the job description." There was the sound of a kiss. "I just don't want anything to upset you, leelan." 'Then tell me the brothers are ready." "We are." "Good. I'll bring her out." "Leelan ? " "What?" There were low words spoken in their beautiful language. "Yes, Tohr," Wellsie whispered. "And after two hundred years, I'd mate you again. In spite of the fact that you snore and you leave your weapons all over our bedroom.

  J.R. Ward

  Beautiful, Baby, Brother

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• Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there,” said Will. “It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Shadow, Hunters

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• And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

  John Green

  Distance, School, Perfect

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

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• What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

  Gregory Maguire

  Memories, Real, Heart

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• My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

  Mira Grant

  Long, People, Firsts

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• Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving, Bears, Morality

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• I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Sorry, Wish

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.40, Scholastic UK

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• At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

  Janette Rallison

  Selfish, Loneliness, Heart

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.30, Penguin

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• God I loved Sammy. I’d considered marrying him, but his wife got upset when I asked for his hand.

  Darynda Jones

  Hands, Wife, Marrying

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.148, Macmillan

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