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The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later… — Bernhard Schlink
...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really… — Terry Pratchett
Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And… — Guillaume Apollinaire
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think… — G.A. Henty
Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard… — Dean Karnazes
hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea… — Lurlene McDaniel
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I… — C.S. Lewis
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came… — C.S. Lewis
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of… — Thomas Merton
Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all,… — Neil Gaiman
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me... — Laurie Halse Anderson
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I… — Margaret Atwood
...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary… — James McBride
What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god. — Nora Roberts
Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles… — Matt Taibbi
So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little… — A A Milne
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling… — Betty Smith
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of… — Leon Uris
Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes,… — Richelle Mead
Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too… — Neil Gaiman
One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can… — Brandon Sanderson
By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old… — Mitch Albom

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