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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the… — Janet Fitch
The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with… — David Sedaris
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. — Joseph Heller
...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended. — Julia Child
Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was… — Joseph Heller
What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think… — Patrick Rothfuss
...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended… — Kevin Brockmeier
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical… — Robert A. Heinlein
I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?'… — Terry Pratchett
Good luck tended to avoid me. — Stephenie Meyer
Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says… — Rick Riordan
I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would… — Roger Ebert
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. — Becca Fitzpatrick
And people tended not to bother a woman with a book. — Cherie Priest
And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His… — Julia Quinn
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only… — Tom Clancy
It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them. — Lauren Myracle
...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. — Ilona Andrews
David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive… — John Connolly
It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it.… — Ann Brashares
You mostly.” Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made me ache for… — Rachel Vincent
I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for… — Deb Caletti
Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with… — Jim Butcher

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