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• You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. “They said that about all the great visionaries.” “You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Crazy, School, Class

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• For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

  Suzanne Collins

  Grandma, Reality, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out

  Jandy Nelson

  Wall, Grief, Sleep

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.55, Penguin

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• Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Harness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 47

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• Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mean, Guy, Horns

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• She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Past, Giving, Shadow

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1055, Delphi Classics

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• At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Christmas, Sweet, Life Changing

  Chris Van Allsburg (1985). “The Polar Express”

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• Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Rivers, Broken, Guy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.1035, Xist Publishing

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• The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.

  Charlaine Harris

  Necks, Valleys, World

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.64, Penguin

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• The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.

  Annie Dillard

  Stars, Sea, Long

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Hurt, Strong

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage

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• Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

  Daniel Handler

  Teacher, School, Students

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• It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Matter, Firsts, Mysterious

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1672, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

  Albert Camus

  Alarms, Faces, Danger

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Frankly, the image of his father wearing bell-bottoms, smoking a joint, and calling his mother a “totally groovy chick” was wrong on so many levels he wanted to erase the whole thing from his memory

  Julie James

  Mother, Memories, Father

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.242, Penguin

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• And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))

  Jason Mraz

  Thinking, Remembers Everything, Found You

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• In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

  Fannie Flagg

  War, Believe, Two

  Fannie Flagg (2012). “Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man”, p.58, Random House

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• End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.

  Billy Graham

  Ruth, Saws, Inspired

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• Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

  Julie Otsuka

  Lunch, Next Day, One Day

  Julie Otsuka (2007). “When the Emperor Was Divine”, p.54, Anchor

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• Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Real, Responsibility, Self

  Charles F. Haanel (2006). “Mental Chemistry”, p.60, Kallisti Publishing

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• Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Moving, Wine

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Telephones, Done

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Song, Strong

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.476, Library of America

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• Her name rang in Will's mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such an inescapable resonance to it. She couldn't have been named something awful, could she, like Mildred. He couldn't imagine lying awake at night, staring up at the ceiling while invisible voices whispered 'Mildred' in his ears. But Tessa--

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Night, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

  Lewis Carroll

  Ocean, Doubt, Captains

  Lewis Carroll (2012). “Rhyme? And Reason? (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.97, Jazzybee Verlag

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