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Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards… — William Golding
I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets… — Helen Fielding
Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a… — Cassandra Clare
I picked up Pandora's jar. The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container. "Hestia," I said, "I give this to you… — Rick Riordan
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton — Kate Morton
When Darroc returns, I know by the look in his eyes that I've chosen well. He thinks I picked black and red for him, the… — Karen Marie Moning
Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him.… — Ilona Andrews
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. — Salman Rushdie
Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that. — Dan Abnett
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he… — Leo Tolstoy
I'm just confused. I can't read your signals. One moment you're hot, the next you're cold. You tell me you want me, you tell me… — Richelle Mead
I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by Wednesday no part… — Judith Viorst
So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made… — Ellen Hopkins
I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them… — Patricia Briggs
He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance. — Charlaine Harris
He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in… — Douglas Adams
He went over to the leathers and picked them up. Nice Catholic boy like him didn't know much about BDSM, but it looked like he… — J R Ward
Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it… — Heather Brewer
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than… — Jack Kerouac
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the… — Flannery O'Connor
He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he… — Ilona Andrews
Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my… — Charlaine Harris
You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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