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• And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Space, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

  Robert Walser

  Tired, Clouds, Light

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• I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.

  Emma Watson

  Feet, Family And Friends, Trying

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• A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Labyrinth, World, Enough

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.524, Macmillan

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• How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

  Abbi Glines

  Fit, Enough, Holes

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

  Kami Garcia

  Dark, Sitting, World

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• That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace. The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?" "Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.

  Ally Carter

  Men, Should Have, Eyebrows

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• Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me … with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.

  Lucy Christopher

  Stars, Mean, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• My whole life has been one big broken promise.

  Sara Zarr

  Broken, Rejection, Promise

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Years, Monsters

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.

  Jim Butcher

  Guy, Want, Mets

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.338, Penguin

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• Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re not on vacation! They’re on the run! They’re running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they’re on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?

  James Patterson

  Running, Vacation, Voice

  James Patterson (2006). “School's Out--Forever: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark, Men, Dragons

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.504, Bantam

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• According to the three missed calls from her mother—who thought Madison had been kidnapped in the big, bad city and was now being held for an ungodly sum of money—the four text messages from her brother wondering if she knew how to navigate the beltway—because apparently little sisters couldn’t drive—and the voice mail from her father warning there was a problem with the reservations, she was late for brunch.

  J. Lynn

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle’s shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn’t exactly reassuring. “Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?” asked Kyle. Or else Ben’s breath was really bad.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Thinking, Effort

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Thinking, People, Religion

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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• I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Funny Things

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• We use such big words to move nowhere.

  Charles Bukowski

  Moving, Use

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• It’s okay. I’m used to people not wanting me at their parties.” I pushed to my feet. The stars seemed to twirl a bit with the movement. “No big deal.

  J. Lynn

  Stars, Party, Feet

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• You’re nice to me because you think I’m pretty?” “And because you have brown eyes. I’m a sucker for big old brown eyes.

  J. Lynn

  Nice, Eye, Thinking

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

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• Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Tragedy, Events, Social

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.48, Penguin

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• A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking, but her attention never shifted off the man who was a predator, for all that he wore human skin. When he peeled open and held out a bar of some kind, she took it, aware low energy levels could be dangerous when it came to her ability to keep a handle on the cold fire. "Thank you." A faint smile, a strange amusement in those icy eyes. "You're welcome." It was the most polite interaction they'd ever had.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• People who entered the Courtyard without an invitation were just plain crazy! Wolves were big and scary and so fluffy, how could anyone resist hugging one just to feel all that fur? “Ignore the fluffy,” she muttered. “Remember the part about big and scary.

  Anne Bishop

  Crazy, People, Scary

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