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“Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer…

— Laini Taylor

“He was forever dwelling on his failures. He held them up to the light and examined them in minute detail, like necklaces that had…

— Elliott Holt

“Besides, there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they…

— Hope Mirrlees

“Later, on the night that she and her beloved were slaughtered, when her eyes latched onto the crawl space where she had hidden their…

— J.R. Ward

“she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.”

— Thomas H. Cook

“She gave another eye roll and glided away. My admiration for my sister grew. One thing to have children...another to keep them when they…

— Kristan Higgins

“She had felt a kind of sadness, looking at the spoons. Spoons that had been lying in their case for perhaps sixty years without…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have…

— Sara Anzellotti

“Scissors. He'd pulled a credit card and a pair of scissors from the drawer. Which meant he could either bribe or stab his adversary.…

— Jane Jensen

“There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could…

— Hazel B. West

“We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of…

— Russell Brand