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• She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

  Hermann Hesse

  Distance, Eye, Destiny

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How much of that did you hear?" "Enough to gather that we're going to a party tonight," said Jordan. "I heard about the Ironworks event. I'm not in the Garroway pack, so I wasn't invited." "I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone back into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We'd better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Lying, Party

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Children, Memories

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.156, Penguin

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• The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cutting, Space, Fabric

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• Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• ...you showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.

  Sylvia Day

  Giving, Example, Fabric

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• We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.25, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

  Nora Roberts

  Land, Dancing, Dreamer

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.14, Penguin

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• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  Radhanath Swami

  Song, Lying, Book

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Meditation Practice, Technique

  "Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

  Marco Rubio

  America, People, Everyday

  "Rubio introduces Romney, vision of GOP future" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

  Agatha Christie

  Truth, Design, Bitter

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

  David Levithan

  Grateful, Taken, Writing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dna, Swag

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• The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Confused, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.

  Brian Greene

  Light, Hands, Talking

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• Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could not tear it, a garment that could not be frayed by use, that brought warmth into what would otherwise be an intolerable, cold world- but at times love could also be as heavy as chain mail. Bearing the burden of love, on those occasions when it was a solemn weight, made it more precious when, in better times, it caught the wind in sleeves like wings, and lifted you.

  Dean Koontz

  Strong, Wind, Wings

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.88, Bantam

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• The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. 

  R.K. Narayan

  Intelligent, Men, Differences

  R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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• People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.

  Vladimir Korolenko

  Freedom, Angel, Light

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• I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Moving, Eye

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• There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Greed, Luck

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? – diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states . Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

  Ralph Ellison

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  "Invisible Man".

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• I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Husband, Father

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

  Rick Riordan

  Punishment, Eyebrows, Clothes

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• The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Marriage, Space, Substance

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.45, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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