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On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and… — Neil Gaiman
We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things… — Simon R. Green
In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared.… — Nicole Krauss
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we… — Sylvia Plath
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. — Sara Gruen
So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what… — Barbara Kingsolver
I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he… — John Irving
I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept… — Sarah Dessen
Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was… — Edith Hamilton
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly,… — Jane Austen
I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know… — Sarah Dessen
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving… — Ann Brashares
Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up… — Michael Ende
Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It… — Rick Riordan
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the… — Haruki Murakami
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as… — A A Milne
I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface — Philip Roth
The cut in Nick's arm was starting to throb dully with the pressure he was putting on it. He kept looking at Alan. 'How many… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The… — Rabindranath Tagore
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept… — Elie Wiesel
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems.… — Alice Sebold

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