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Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves…
— Suzanne Collins
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Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
— Brandon Sanderson
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What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration.…
— Isaac Newton
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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and…
— John le Carre
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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,…
— Arnold Bennett
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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could…
— Charles Yu
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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
— Oscar Wilde
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a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives…
— Eoin Colfer
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Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!”…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around…
— Vera Nazarian
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I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my…
— Rachel Vincent
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Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain…
— Caroline B. Cooney
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another,…
— Ann Patchett
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Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from…
— Joan Bauer
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It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and…
— Jasper Fforde
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would…
— Isabel Allende
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That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed…
— Siri Hustvedt
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The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building." "But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
— George Orwell
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I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
— Truman Capote
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My fore-parts, as you so ineloquently put it, have names.” I pointed to my right breast. “This is Danger.” Then my left. “And this is…
— Darynda Jones
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For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
— William Shakespeare
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For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the…
— Steve Martin
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