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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried… — Meg Wolitzer
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place. — Ivan Turgenev
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay,… — Mitch Albom
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have… — Milan Kundera
You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,… — Lorrie Moore
Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years… — James M. Barrie
And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet. — Gregory Maguire
There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didnâ€™t. — Jennifer Weiner
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go… — James Thurber
But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever… — Audrey Niffenegger
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the… — Eric Carle
The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled… — Harmony Korine
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… — Markus Zusak
My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on… — Jennifer Donnelly
Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart. — Brian Jacques
Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three… — Janet Evanovich
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too.… — Sarah Dessen

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