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Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the… — Kate Morton
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of… — Mohsin Hamid
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments she fell asleep… — L.A. Weatherly
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass,… — D. H. Lawrence
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life,… — Sarah Addison Allen
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of… — Jerry Spinelli
James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he… — Laini Taylor
Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are… — Dan Brown
I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd… — Melina Marchetta
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions. — Milan Kundera
That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee… — Nora Roberts
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter… — Neil Gaiman
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves… — Max Stirner
A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the… — Virginia Woolf
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look… — George A. Sheehan
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was… — Annie Dillard
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues… — William Gibson
Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting… — Philip Larkin
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city… — Thomas Paine

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