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Whatâ€™s your name, lad?â€ â€œNewton. Newton Pulsifer.â€ â€œLUCIFER? Whatâ€™s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the… — Neil Gaiman
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't… — Chuck Palahniuk
I couldnâ€™t leave Total behind.â€ â€œTotal?â€ Iggy asked. â€œThatâ€™s what his card said,â€ Angel explained. â€œTotally a mutant dog who will probably turn on us… — James Patterson
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda… — Laurie Halse Anderson
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… — Francis Crick
I thought I'd explained it clearly before. Bella, I can't live in a world where you don't exist. — Stephenie Meyer
Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love,â€ the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. â€œBut I donâ€™t think… — Lisa Kleypas
Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and… — Rick Riordan
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. — Lisa Kleypas
Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage… — Neil Gaiman
I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a… — Jonathan Ames
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come. — A A Milne
A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that… — R A Salvatore
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things… — C.S. Lewis
Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from… — Frederick Buechner
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected… — William A. Dembski
Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like,… — Karen Russell
I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of come with the… — Julie James

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