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• She could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work to soften her -- like butter before you add sugar, in the first steps of making something sweet. It was her first experience of how bodies could meld together, how breath could slip naturally into rhythm. It was hypnotic. Heady. And she wanted more.

  Laini Taylor

  Sweet, Boys, Smell

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• Jenks laughed, taking to the air and saying, “Give it up, FIB man. It’ll take more than you to get her out. Remember what Ivy and I did to your finest last spring? Add Rachel to that, and you can say your prayers.” From behind me came Edden’s dry “You think Ivy wants another stint as a candy striper?

  Kim Harrison

  Prayer, Spring, Men

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• So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company." "I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. "We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco. "Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Laughter, Eye

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• Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who might’ve been able to reach out and save her from herself. To pull her back from wherever she was heading. I did what she asked and I left. When I should have stayed.

  Jay Asher

  Hurt, Pain, Should Have

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.220, Penguin

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• We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path. "Not you too," I complained. "Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Sorry, Sea

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• The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Missing, Way To Live

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Feb 28, 2014

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Stress, Thinking, Two

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• I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Husband, Believe, Fall

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• God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

  Francis Chan

  Want, Invitations, Just One

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.153, David C Cook

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• So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Gun, Men, Two

  Brandon Sanderson (2018). “Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)”, p.307, Tor Books

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• He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Special, Way, Steps

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath, and put the jacket on again. Thugs are us. Great. Just add a super-tight ponytail and loads of mascara, and I’d be ripe to play a supervillain’s evil mistress. Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Thug, Dna

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• It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Trying, Factories

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.561, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

  Pema Chodron

  Needs, Extras, Seems

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.139, Shambhala Publications

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• Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Air, Nails

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• Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.

  Richelle Mead

  Kids, Years, Brain

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

  Joshua Harris

  Beautiful, Godly, Men

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.118, Multnomah

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• The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the spaces *between* the rewards, we'll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards *and* the spaces, then we'll have everything - every minute of the time that we spent.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Mean, Space, Goal

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• My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.

  Darynda Jones

  Phones, My Thoughts, Plans

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• Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Fun, Party

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.84, Zondervan

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• I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Believe, Admiration

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Real, Passing

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.73, Titan Books

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• We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.

  David Levithan

  Space, Missing, Sound

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.7, Egmont UK

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