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I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening… — Sarah Dessen
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his… — Thomas Pynchon
What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have… — Gerard Way
He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have… — Diana Wynne Jones
A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again… — Robert Fulghum
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature. — P.G. Wodehouse
I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur — Janet Evanovich
I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back. — John Green
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read… — Karen Marie Moning
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry… — Charlaine Harris
These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain — Janet Fitch
Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they… — Henry Rollins
And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night… — Jennifer Weiner
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as… — Rick Riordan
Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She… — Shirley MacLaine
Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've… — Patrick Rothfuss
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable… — David Wroblewski
When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before… — David Wroblewski
He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke
Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be'… — William P. Young
Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said… — Susan Cooper
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves… — Jonathan Safran Foer
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked… — Leo Tolstoy

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