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“...I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that…

— Lolah Lace

“You snuck across my yard like a trained mercenary. Dressed in a black getup without so much as a pebble misplaced under your shoe…

— Jocelyn Adams

“And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You…

— Terry Pratchett

“I hear you laughing, and yes you are taller than me, better looking than me, you are fitter than me, your body rippling with…

— J.W. Murison

“I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive.…

— Annie Dillard

“You never jump far when you are standing still.”

— Yuri van der Sluis

“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the…

— Jesmyn Ward

“I'm leaping off a cliff only to discover I can fly... and then realizing there's nowhere to land. Ever. That's what's going on.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Let me get this straight. The man with the gun says stay in your seat and you take that to mean jump around the…

— Koushun Takami

“We pull our boots on with both hands but we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on the curb…

— Richard Siken

“Coward, thought Asher. You’re just a bully and a coward. He stilled his hand and lowered his fist, speaking in a low, lethal tone.…

— Katy Regnery

“The landings were dirty and the walls were bare. This stairway brought me into the balcony, and I sat there in the dark, thinking…

— John Cheever