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• I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.

  Sylvia Plath

  Blood, Two, Touching

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• Oh," she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Thinking, Hair, Different

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means." Isabelle pulled the long heavy mass of her wet hair forward and wrung it out as if it were wet washing. "You're raining on my parade." "It's a pretty wet parade already, if you hadn't noticed." Jace glanced around.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fun, Rain, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Running, Eye

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.204, Anchor

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• Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

  Dylan Thomas

  Baby, Garden, Garters

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 30

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• This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clever, Home, Men

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning.

  Kate Elliott

  Dream, Eye, Kissing

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• Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Nice, Loneliness, Water

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.187, Melville House

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• Do you think I haven't noticed? You can't wait to be free of me. I drink and then you bolt up, as if you've had to force yourself to endure my presence." She'd started to sob then. "I've always tried to be clean when I come to you. I spend hours in the tub, washing myself. But I cannot find the dirt that you see." -Marissa to Wrath

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Wrath, Waiting

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Dark Lover: Number 1 in series”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

  John Green

  Pain, Body, Consciousness

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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• I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Nice, Home, Wine

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.175, Feiwel & Friends

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• The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.

  George MacDonald

  Morning, Sunshine, Light

  George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'.

  Paul Murray

  Life, Mean, Weekend

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• The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Real, Party

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Fate, Rivers

  Alice Hoffman (2010). “Green Witch”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sea, Castles, Tides

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• Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

  Alexander Theroux

  Self, Views, Style

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• When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

  Rachel Billington

  Writing, People, Hobbies

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• Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don’t put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It’s something you’re supposed to do. Now, you can’t go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That’s stupid.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Glowing, Voting

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September, 2004.

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• My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

  Uma Thurman

  Machines, Sophistication, Washing Machines

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go in a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean.

  Terrence Howard

  Baby, House, Wipe

  "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

  Josh Lucas

  Baby, House, Mind

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• I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning this treasure, sealing it with the Sacrament of my body and blood, so that you need never doubt. True, it seems little and insignificant that by the washing of water, the Word, and the Sacrament this should all be effected. But don't let your eyes deceive you.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Blood, Water

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• Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

  Mary Roach

  Softball, Mom, Thinking

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• Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

  Karl Kraus

  Philosophical, Truth Is, Break

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

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