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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
To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They… — Alain Robbe-Grillet
Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! — John Steinbeck
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… — Terry Pratchett
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the… — C.S. Lewis
It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the… — Jeanne DuPrau
Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent.… — Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word… — Paulo Coelho
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor,… — Margaret Atwood
That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan.… — Michael Chabon
The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten… — Angela Carter
...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what… — Sherman Alexie
Men didn't respect beauty...they used it. — Nora Roberts
There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the… — Suzanne Collins
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to… — Dorothy L. Sayers
It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have. — Nicholas Sparks
When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties… — Fernando Pessoa
(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and… — Thomas Mann
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were,… — Nora Ephron
You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most… — Ridley Pearson
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the… — Deborah Harkness
They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a… — S E Hinton
The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the… — Rick Riordan
Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a… — P. C. Cast

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