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title: "255 Dining room Quotes by 227 authors"
description: "Browse 255 Dining room quotes by 227 authors. Discover the best Dining room sayings and thoughts."
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> [Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/candice-olson/dining-rooms-are-really-all-about-the-table-and-the-chairs/)

[Candice Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/candice-olson/)

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> [You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/you-can-keep-the-dining-room-clean-by-eating-in-the-kitchen/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cat-deeley/i-have-a-damien-hirst-spot-painting-which-i-love-it-has-pride-of/)

[Cat Deeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cat-deeley/)

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> [“Cracker Barrel’s dining room bustled with activity. Joan had to raise her voice to be heard by Eve, who sat at the”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-smith/cracker-barrel-s-dining-room-bustled-with-activity-joan-had-to-raise/)

[Virginia Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-smith/)

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> [The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashleigh-brilliant/the-whole-world-is-our-dining-room-but-be-careful-it-is-also-our/)

[Ashleigh Brilliant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashleigh-brilliant/)

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> [I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-rickman/i-have-this-feeling-that-if-i-could-sort-out-what-s-on-my-dining-room/)

[Alan Rickman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-rickman/)

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> [Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-cannon/ballplayers-who-are-first-to-the-dining-room-are-usually-last-in/)

[Jimmy Cannon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-cannon/)

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> [I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henny-youngman/i-came-home-the-car-was-in-the-dining-room-how-did-you-get-the-car-in/)

[Henny Youngman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henny-youngman/)

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> [A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simeon-strunsky/a-dining-room-table-with-children-s-eager-hungry-faces-around-it/)

[Simeon Strunsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simeon-strunsky/)

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> [ The poodle \[Rufus\] ate in the dining room with the rest of the \[Churchill\] family. A cloth was laid for him on… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/the-poodle-rufus-ate-in-the-dining-room-with-the-rest-of-the/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [“They moved from the drawing room to a dining room on the ground floor where they found spiders large as saucers lurking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/they-moved-from-the-drawing-room-to-a-dining-room-on-the-ground-floor/)

[J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/)

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> [The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimenez-lai/the-dining-room-is-a-building-the-bathroom-is-a-building-if-we/)

[Jimenez Lai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimenez-lai/)

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> [“The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/the-handsome-dining-room-of-the-hotel-wessex-with-its-gilded-plaster/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

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> [I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mireille-guiliano/i-love-my-kitchen-for-manhattan-i-have-a-rather-decent-size-kitchen/)

[Mireille Guiliano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mireille-guiliano/)

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> [“Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-jane-howard/why-do-these-big-old-country-houses-always-have-family-portraits-in/)

[Elizabeth Jane Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-jane-howard/)

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> [I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitava-kumar/i-thought-i-d-be-the-first-to-introduce-herbal-tea-to-patna-white-tea/)

[Amitava Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitava-kumar/)

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> [It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassandra-clare/it-s-will-she-said-he-s-being-absolutely-ridiculous-in-the-dining/)

[Cassandra Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassandra-clare/)

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> [“She dreamed of going into the dining room and finding a woman bound with chains to the long Ethan Allen table there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/she-dreamed-of-going-into-the-dining-room-and-finding-a-woman-bound/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-sanderson/sarene-finally-released-him-wiping-her-eyes-disappointed-in-herself/)

[Brandon Sanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandon-sanderson/)

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> [“If this was death, then death was like switching off the lights in a big house; first the farthest rooms, then the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ironmonger/if-this-was-death-then-death-was-like-switching-off-the-lights-in-a/)

[John Ironmonger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ironmonger/)

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> [If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-woodruff/if-you-re-using-technology-in-a-way-that-opens-out-conversation-in/)

[Judy Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-woodruff/)

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> [Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/today-we-re-taking-a-break-from-the-concerns-and-the-bustle-of-the/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [“observations. Therefore, the entire archbishop’s residence, from the bedroom to the dining room, was bugged with listening devices. The communists were rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-evert/observations-therefore-the-entire-archbishop-s-residence-from-the/)

[Jason Evert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-evert/)

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> [“The world is going to turn upside down in a way that the honest man will live uncomfortably -- while the dishonest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzy-kassem/the-world-is-going-to-turn-upside-down-in-a-way-that-the-honest-man/)

[Suzy Kassem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzy-kassem/)

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> [“The great chandeliers hang silent. The tables in the vast dining room overlooking the lake are spread with white cloth and silver…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-salter/the-great-chandeliers-hang-silent-the-tables-in-the-vast-dining-room/)

[James Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-salter/)

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> [“Mom's note on the dining room table to me and Faith read: Daughters of mine, In case you haven't noticed, no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-bauer/mom-s-note-on-the-dining-room-table-to-me-and-faith-read-daughters-of/)

[Joan Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-bauer/)

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> [“New Year Way Out by Stewart Stafford Take off down the truculent highway For a well-earned New Year escape Tasty lunch at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-stafford/new-year-way-out-by-stewart-stafford-take-off-down-the-truculent/)

[Stewart Stafford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-stafford/)

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> [“But you're wrong about that hating business. I mean about hating football players and all. You really are. I don't hate too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-salinger/but-you-re-wrong-about-that-hating-business-i-mean-about-hating/)

[J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-salinger/)

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> [“For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise above the murmur of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-williams/for-several-moments-he-did-not-move-from-the-doorway-he-heard-the/)

[John Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-williams/)

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> [“Doing things the right way, giving guys accolades for that. It’s important. In Burger King we used to call it taking a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rich-cohen/doing-things-the-right-way-giving-guys-accolades-for-that-it-s/)

[Rich Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rich-cohen/)

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> [“Woman and children behind the lines!' he yelled, and all the girls jumped. Henry froze with his mouth open. 'Bang the drum…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-d-wilson/woman-and-children-behind-the-lines-he-yelled-and-all-the-girls/)

[N.D. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-d-wilson/)

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> [“Long after all the chocolates were eaten, and the cousins had gone, we kept the chocolate-box in the linen-drawer in the dining-room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/long-after-all-the-chocolates-were-eaten-and-the-cousins-had-gone-we/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

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> [“She pulled out a blue dress made of washed silk that was so soft it felt like skin. Size six. There was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elin-hilderbrand/she-pulled-out-a-blue-dress-made-of-washed-silk-that-was-so-soft-it/)

[Elin Hilderbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elin-hilderbrand/)

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> [“I reached down and squeezed his hand. "You are a good brother." He nodded. I could see in the gray light that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you-are-a-good-brother-he-nodded/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“It interests me that there is no end of fictions, and facts made over in the forms of fictions. Because we class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-greif/it-interests-me-that-there-is-no-end-of-fictions-and-facts-made-over/)

[Mark Greif](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-greif/)

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> [“Real love feels less like a throbbing, pulsing animal begging for its freedom and beating against the inside of my chest and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samantha-irby/real-love-feels-less-like-a-throbbing-pulsing-animal-begging-for-its-2/)

[Samantha Irby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samantha-irby/)

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> [“You shouldn’t pay any attention to what she says,” Kendra says firmly, nodding at Elisa sprawled out on the terrace chair. “She’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-henderson/you-shouldn-t-pay-any-attention-to-what-she-says-kendra-says-firmly/)

[Lauren Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-henderson/)

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> [“Boom! Boom! Boom! Briette lifted her head. She had fallen asleep on her crossed arms, resting over the book. What was that?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-valle/boom-boom-boom-briette-lifted-her-head-she-had-fallen-asleep-on-her/)

[Anita Valle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-valle/)

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> [“Bet you didn't know that when you agreed to be 'betrothed' to me, huh? Husband-eviscerating apparently runs in my family." Still no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-hawkins/bet-you-didn-t-know-that-when-you-agreed-to-be-betrothed-to-me-huh/)

[Rachel Hawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-hawkins/)

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> [“Hurry up!” everyone in the room seemed to shriek at the same time. It didn’t matter to us that all over Pittsburgh,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-beard/hurry-up-everyone-in-the-room-seemed-to-shriek-at-the-same-time-it/)

[Philip Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-beard/)

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## Top authors on Dining room

- [Jarod Kintz 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dining-room/jarod-kintz/)

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                        "text": "“observations. Therefore, the entire archbishop’s residence, from the bedroom to the dining room, was bugged with listening devices. The communists were rather clumsy about it, pretending to show up as random technicians who needed to work on the phone lines or electrical system.”",
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                        "text": "“The world is going to turn upside down in a way that the honest man will live uncomfortably -- while the dishonest man will live very comfortably. Pay attention to the windows of the Four Seasons next time you stroll by their dining room. You will find thugs and hustlers of every creed living like true kings and queens.”",
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                        "text": "“The great chandeliers hang silent. The tables in the vast dining room overlooking the lake are spread with white cloth and silver as if for dinners before the war. At a little after 4, into the green room with the slow walk of aged people, the Nabokovs come. He wears a navy blue cardigan, a blue-checked shirt, gray slacks and a tie. His shoes have crepe soles. He is balding, with a fringe of gray hair. His hazel-green eyes are watering, oysterous, as he says. He is 75, born on the same day as Shakespeare, April 23. He is at the end of a great career, a career half-carved out of a language not his own.”",
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                        "text": "“Mom's note on the dining room table to me and Faith read: Daughters of mine, In case you haven't noticed, no one has seen the top of our dining room table in months. I seem to recall it is oak, but as the days dwindle by, I'm less and less sure. Perhaps this is because your school books, files, papers, magazines, letters, underwear, etc., are shielding it from normal use. My goal for you, dear offspring, to be accomplished in twenty-four hours (no excuses), is the clearing/exhuming of this space so that we may gather around it once again and spend quality time. Even though I am working the night shift, I will still be watching. Do it or die. Your loving mother”",
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                        "text": "“New Year Way Out by Stewart Stafford Take off down the truculent highway For a well-earned New Year escape Tasty lunch at some time warp hotel Seedy tree in an old folks dining room. Destination reached in crimson twilight Friends from back in the day greet us Bags dragged in, up and put in corners Then, downstairs for a seafood dinner. Catch up on all the gossip and chat Take a moonlight walk on the beach Crabs roam the sand as sleep comes Routine fractured in grinning dreams. © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”",
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                        "text": "“But you're wrong about that hating business. I mean about hating football players and all. You really are. I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey or this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hated them once in a while- I admit it- but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I din't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them.”",
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                        "text": "“For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise above the murmur of the assembled guests she served. She raised her head, and suddenly he met her eyes; they were pale and large and seemed to shine with a light within themselves. In some confusion he backed from the doorway and turned into the sitting room; he found an empty chair in a space by the wall, and he sat there looking at the carpet beneath his feet. He did not look in the direction of the dining room, but every now and then he thought he felt the gaze of the young woman brush warmly across his face.”",
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                        "text": "“Doing things the right way, giving guys accolades for that. It’s important. In Burger King we used to call it taking a walk. Taking a walk means you get out of your office and walk around the restaurant. You walk outside and look for trash. Is the dining room clean? Are your employees dressed properly? Are they smiling? Are the lights on? We all need to take a walk more often. Just look around and say, ‘Is everything right? Is everything the way it should be? Are we giving ourselves the best chance to have success?’ And if we are, then what’s wrong with going up to that person that has that area cleaned up, and is focused, with a smile on their face, and saying, ‘Hey, I want you to know I appreciate it.’ If there’s one thing I learned as an owner, it’s that the players, people that work for you, they’re the ones that are going to make you successful.” Plank bought”",
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                        "text": "“Woman and children behind the lines!' he yelled, and all the girls jumped. Henry froze with his mouth open. 'Bang the drum slowly and ask not for whom the bell's ringing, for the answer's unfriendly!' He threw a fist in the air. 'Two years have my black ships sat before Troy, and today its gate shall open before the strength of my arm.' Dotty was laughing from the kitchen. Frank looked at his nephew. 'Henry, we play baseball tomorrow. Today we sack cities. Dots! Fetch me my tools! Down with the French! Once more into the breach, and fill the wall with our coward dead! Half a league! Half a league! Hey, batter, batter!' Frank brought his fist down onto the table, spilling Anastasia's milk, and then he struck a pose with both arms above his head and his chin on his chest. The girls cheered and applauded. Aunt Dotty stepped back into the dining room carrying a red metal toolbox.”",
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                        "text": "“She pulled out a blue dress made of washed silk that was so soft it felt like skin. Size six. There was another dress in a champagne color- the same cut, very simple, a slip dress to just above the knee. There was a third outfit- a tank and skirt in the same silk, bottle green. \"These are for me?\" \"Let's see how they look.\" She took the bag into the ladies' room and slipped the blue dress on over her bikini. It fell over Adrienne's body like a dress in a dream- and it would look even better when she had the right underwear. So here was her look. She checked the side of the shopping bag. The clothes had come from a store called Dessert, on India Street, and Adrienne recognized the name of the store as the one owned by the chef's wife, the redhead who had been so kind during soft opening. If you come in, I'd love to dress you, free of charge. So maybe Thatch didn't pay for these clothes. Still, it was weird. Weird that Thatcher had told her she needed a look, weird that he (or the redhead) had perfectly identified it, and weird that she now had to model it for him, proving him right. She stepped out into the dining room. He gazed at her. And then he gave a long, low whistle. That did it: Her face heated up, the skin on her arms tingled. She had never felt so desirable in all her life.”",
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                        "text": "“I reached down and squeezed his hand. \"You are a good brother.\" He nodded. I could see in the gray light that he was crying a little. \"Thanks\", he said. \"i kind of just want to stay here in this particular instant for a really long time.\" \"Yeah\", I said. We settled into silence and I felt the sky's bigness above me, the unimaginable vastness of it all - looking at Polaris and realizing the light I was seeing was 425 years old, and then looking at Jupiter, less than a light-hour from us. In the moonless darkness, we were just witnesses to light, and I felt a sliver of what must have driven Davis to astronomy. There was a kind of relief in having your own smallness laid bare before you, and I realized something Davis must have already known: Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out. And I knew I would remember that feeling, underneath the split-up sky, back before the machinery of fate ground us into one thing or another, back when we could still be everything. I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other - maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again and I will be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible. But it turn out not to be terrible, because i know the secret that the me lying beneath that sky could not imagine: I know that girl would go on, that she would grow up, have children and love them, that despite loving them she would get too sick to care for them, be hospitalized, get better, and then get sick again. I know a shrink would say, write it down, how you got here. So you would, and in writing it down you realize, love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift. You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why. - But underneath those skies, your hand - no, my hand, no - our hand - in his, you don't know yet. You don't know that the spiral painting is in that box on your dining room table, with a Post-it note stuck to the back of the frame. You don't know that you will make a life, see it unbuilt and rebuilt.”",
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                        "text": "“It interests me that there is no end of fictions, and facts made over in the forms of fictions. Because we class them under so many different rubrics, and media, and means of delivery, we don't recognize the sheer proliferation and seamlessness of them. I think at some level of scale or perspective, the police drama in which a criminal is shot, the hospital in which the doctors massage a heart back to life, the news video in which jihadists behead a hostage, and the human-interest story of a child who gets his fondest wish (a tourist trip somewhere) become the same sorts of drama. They are representations of strong experience, which, as they multiply, began to dedifferentiate in our uptake of them, despite our names and categories and distinctions... I say I watch the news to \"know\". But I don't really know anything. Certainly I can't do anything. I know that there is a war in Iraq, but I knew that already. I know that there are fires and car accidents in my state and in my country, but that, too, I knew already. With each particular piece of footage, I know nothing more than I did before. I feel something, or I don't feel something. One way I am likely to feel is virtuous and \"responsible\" for knowing more of these things that I can do nothing about. Surely this feeling is wrong, even contemptible. I am not sure anymore what I feel. What is it like to watch a human being's beheading? The first showing of the video is bad. The second, fifth, tenth, hundredth are—like one's own experiences—retained, recountable, real, and yet dreamlike. Some describe the repetition as \"numbing\". \"Numbing\" is very imprecise. I think the feeling, finally, is of something like envelopment and even satisfaction at having endured the worst without quite caring or being tormented. It is the paradoxically calm satisfaction of having been enveloped in a weak or placid \"real\" that another person endured as the worst experience imaginable, in his personal frenzy, fear, and desperation, which we view from the outside as the simple occurrence of a death... I see: Severed heads. The Extra Value Meal. Kohl-gray eyelids. A holiday sale at Kohl's. Red seeping between the fingers of the gloved hand that presses the wound. \"Doctor, can you save him?\" \"We'll do our best.\" The dining room of the newly renovated house, done in red. Often a bold color is best. The kids are grateful for their playroom. The bad guy falls down, shot. The detectives get shot. The new Lexus is now available for lease. On CNN, with a downed helicopter in the background, a peaceful field of reeds waves in the foreground. One after another the reeds are bent, broken, by boot treads advancing with the camera. The cameraman, as savior, locates the surviving American airman. He shoots him dead. It was a terrorist video. They run it again. Scenes from ads: sales, roads, ordinary calm shopping, daily life. Tarpaulined bodies in the street. The blue of the sky advertises the new car's color. Whatever you could suffer will have been recorded in the suffering of someone else. Red Lobster holds a shrimp festival. Clorox gets out blood. Advil stops pain fast. Some of us are going to need something stronger.”",
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                        "text": "“Real love feels less like a throbbing, pulsing animal begging for its freedom and beating against the inside of my chest and more like, 'Hey, that place you like had fish tacos today and i got you some while i was out', as it sets a bag spotted with grease on the dining room table. It's not a game you don't understand the rules of, or a test you never got the materials to study for. It never leaves you wondering who could possibly be texting at 3 am. Or what you could possibly do to make it come home and stay there. It's fucking boring, dude. I don't walk around mired in uneasiness, waiting for the other shoe to drop. No parsing through spun tales about why it took her so long to come back from the store. No checking her emails or calling her job to make sure she's actually there. No sitting in my car outside her house at dawn, to make sure she's alone when she leaves. This feels safe, and steadfast, and predictable. And secure. It's boring as shit. And it's easily the best thing I've ever felt.”",
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                        "text": "“You shouldn’t pay any attention to what she says,” Kendra says firmly, nodding at Elisa sprawled out on the terrace chair. “She’s just a nasty bitch. Ignore her.” Elisa hears this, as she’s meant to. “And you,” she calls to Kendra, swiveling on her chair to face inside the dining room, “you think you are so pretty, so beautiful, because all the boys want you. Well, they only want you because you are different. They think you are esotica. Exotic.” Kendra looks as if Elisa just slapped her in the face, and Paige draws in her breath sharply. “Are you kidding me?” Paige snaps at Elisa. “What did you just call her?” Her hands clenched into fists, Paige marches around the table in Elisa’s direction; skinny Elisa flinches at the sight of 140 pounds of super-confident, sporty, protein-fed American girl heading toward her with fury in her eyes. I nip around the table from the other side and head Paige off before she backhands Elisa like Serena Williams hits a tennis ball, and sends her flying across the terrace and into the olive grove beyond. I’m not an etiquette expert, but I can’t help feeling that knocking our hostess’s daughter over a stone balcony might not be considered the most appropriate way to celebrate the first full day of our summer course. “Paige, leave it! She’s just jealous,” I say swiftly. “Ignore her. She’s having a go at us because she’s pissed off that Luca likes foreign girls--he doesn’t want her.” Elisa grabs her cigarettes and her phone, jumps up, and, sneering at us all, storms off the terrace, muttering, “ Vaffanculo! ” as she flees the wrath of Killer Barbie. That’s right--run away. To me, “exotic” sounds nice, like a compliment: out-of-the-ordinary, glamorous, exciting. But Kendra clearly hasn’t taken it that way, nor did Paige. I want to ask them why, but it’s Kelly, of all people, who saves the moment by saying meditatively: “You know, we should make a note of all the mean things Elisa says to us in Italian. That way, we’ll learn all the best swearwords.”",
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                        "text": "“Boom! Boom! Boom! Briette lifted her head. She had fallen asleep on her crossed arms, resting over the book. What was that? Were they having a summer storm? Boom! Boom! Boom! The door. The main door of the manor. How strange! Briette looked at the guttering candle on her table. It wasn’t much shorter, she might have slept an hour. Still, it was very late for the house to have a caller. Briette waited, listened for footfalls on the stairs. It was normally Calister who answered the door. He would be asleep now, four floors above, and probably could not hear a thing. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! And the caller was not patient. Briette sighed and rose stiffly from the bench. She wasn’t sure if chambermaids should answer the door, but given the circumstances, she hoped Miss Gerda would forgive her. She took the staircase that led up from the kitchen to the grand dining room. Her candle sputtered and in the near-blackness, Briette jammed her small toes against the leg of a chair. She winced, grinding her teeth, and hobbled through to the entrance hall. If this was merely a messenger who could have come at daylight, she intended to give him an earful. The front door was large, heavy and stern. Briette slid back the latch and gave the iron ring a hard tug. It swung back, whining softly on its hinges. “Holy Noses, that took an age,” said a deep voice. “Where’s the steward?” Briette looked at the caller, lit by her candle. In an instant, her whole body turned to pudding. “I – I – I think he’s asleep. They all are. Um – uh – won’t you come in?” She stepped back, lowering the candle, and hoped he did not see her shaking. The man stepped inside. He was a tall man, grandly stout, with a well-shaped salt-and-pepper beard. He wore robes of blue velvet, heavy jewelry, and above his stern face, a magnificent crown. King Jarrod of Grunwold. Chapter 18 He”",
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                        "text": "“Bet you didn't know that when you agreed to be 'betrothed' to me, huh? Husband-eviscerating apparently runs in my family.\" Still no reaction, and I felt shame curl in my belly. \"Of course, you also didn't know you were getting a damon bride,\" I added in a softer tone. Very few people knew what my dad really was. I'd always assumed Cal had found out the same night I did. That's why I was really surprised when he raised his head and said, \"I knew.\" \"What?\" \"I knew what you were then, Sophie. Your dad told me before the betrothal. And he told me about your grandmother, and what happened to your grandfather.\" I shook my head. \"Then,why?\" Cal took his time before answering. \"For one thing, I like your dad. He's done good things for Prodigium. And it-\" He broke off with a long exhale. \"It felt like some kind of honor, you know? Being asked to be the head of the Council's son-in-law. Plus, your dad, he,uh,told me a lot about you.\" My voice was barely above a whisper. \"What did he say?\" \"That you were smart, and strong. Funny. That you had trouble using your powers, but you were always trying to use them to help people.\" He shrugged. \"I thought we'd be a good match.\" The vast dining room suddenly felt very small, like it consisted only of this table and me and Cal. \"Look, Sophie,\" he started to say. But before he could finish, Jenna walked in. \"I am so glad I still get to eat human food, because that bacon smells insane ...\" she said, and then froze. \"Oh!\" she exclaimed, her ealier bounciness draining out of her. \"Sorry! I didn't mean to interrupt...whatever. I c-can...leave?\" She gestured with her thumb over her shoulder. \"And then come back,uh, later?\" But the moment was broken. Cal sat back, and I pushed my hair behind my ears. \"No,it's fine,\" I said quickly, concentrating harder on my eggs than I had on my SAT.”",
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                        "text": "“Hurry up!” everyone in the room seemed to shriek at the same time. It didn’t matter to us that all over Pittsburgh, in every house and in every bar, thousands of others were undoubtedly carrying out their own rituals, performing their own superstitions. Hats were turned backward and inside out, incantations spoken and sung, talismans rubbed and chewed and prayed to. People who had the bad fortune of arriving at their gathering shortly before the Orioles’ first run were treated like kryptonite and banished willingly to the silence of media-less dining rooms and bathrooms, forced to follow the game through the reactions of their friends and family. And every one of those people believed what we believed: that ours was the only one that mattered, the only one that worked. Ruthie fumbled through the pages. Johnson fouled one off. “Got it!” Ruthie called. She stood and held Dock Ellis’s picture high over her head, Shangelesa’s scribbled hearts like hundreds of clear bubbles through which her father could watch the fate of his teammates. “He’s no batter, he’s no batter!” Ruthie sang. Johnson grounded the next pitch to shortstop Jackie Hernandez, who threw to Bob Robertson at first, and the threat was over. We yelled until we were hoarse. We were raucous and ridiculous and unashamed, and I have no better childhood memory than the rest of that afternoon. Blass came back out for the ninth, heroically shrugging off his wobbly eighth and, with Ruthie still standing behind us, holding the program shakily aloft for the entirety of the inning, he induced a weak grounder from Boog Powell, an infield pop-up from Frank Robinson, and a Series-ending grounder to short from Rettenmund. For the second inning in a row, Hernandez threw to Robertson for the final out, and all of us (or those who were able) jumped from our seats just as Blass leaped into Robertson’s arms, straddling his teammate’s chest like a frightened acrobat. Any other year, Blass would have been named the Most Valuable Player, and his performance remains one of the most dominant by a pitcher in Series history: eighteen innings, two earned runs, thirteen strikeouts, just four walks, and two complete game victories. But this Series belonged to Clemente. To put what he did in perspective, no Oriole player had more than seven hits. Clemente had twelve, including two doubles, a triple and two homeruns. He was relentless and graceful and indomitable. He had, in fact, made everyone else look like minor leaguers. The rush”",
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