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• Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lying, Reality, Air

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• Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and he's going to start thinking he has rights over you.” She knew predatory changeling men. They liked control. They particularly liked their women to submit. And Riley was one big giant hunk of testosterone-fueled Neanderthal wolf—he probably thought her submission was his right. She snorted. “Not in this lifetime.

  Nalini Singh

  Mistake, Writing, Night

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.31, Penguin

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• Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Texas, Mercy

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.274, Penguin

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• I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.

  Sara Gruen

  Thinking, Next, Fingers

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• The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

  Richard Rohr

  Home, Men, Soul

  Richard Rohr (2010). “On the Threshold of Transformation”, p.4, Loyola Press

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• You volunteering to play Big Gulp? ~Wraith

  Larissa Ione

  Play, Volunteer

  Larissa Ione (2009). “Desire Unchained: A Demonica Novel”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Alex, Add it up. No matter how much you want her in your life, she doesn’t belong. A triangle can’t fit into a square. Just pointing out the facts” "“Gracias” I don’t point out that if it’s a big enough square, a small triangle can fit inside perfectly. All you have to do is make a few adjustments.

  Simone Elkeles

  Squares, Add, Alex

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

  Ann Brashares

  Trying, Alive

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.204, Delacorte Press

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• Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that’s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn’t happen to me, I don’t want to think it happens to anyone else.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Believe, Thinking, Love Is

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• When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, half awake to the world. You see yourself happy, holding in your arms a good, decent, gentle, beloved young man with the blood keen in his veins, who before long is going to disappear, just disappear, into a storm of hate and flying metal and fire. And you just don't know it.

  Wendell Berry

  Girl, Hate, Men

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• You could call him," Wes suggests. "Why be a spectator in the game of love? Take charge. Don't wait around and let the boy call all the shots." "As cheesy as all of that sounds," Kimmie adds. "Cheese or not,I know what I'm talking about." He sulks. "I've lived it. I've learned it." Kimmie lets out a laugh. "With who,Romeo? That Wendy girl you paid to date you?" "Oh, and because I don't have a dating history as big as your mouth, it doesn't quite measure up?" "I hate to break this to you, but that isn't the only thing of yours that doesn't measure up." "Wouldn't you like to know?" He grins.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Girl, Hate, Boys

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• All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?

  Amy Hempel

  Moving, Doctors, Years

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• I wasn’t a fabulous cook. I didn’t have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn’t a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot.

  Janet Evanovich

  Husband, Long, Hot

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.60, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

  Jodi Picoult

  Looks, Forgotten, Like Me

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Atlanta, Asking

  Lauren Myracle (2011). “Ten”, p.93, Penguin

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• My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest

  Libba Bray

  Eye, School, Kids

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• They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hair, Mad, Nests

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• That’s how you tell what a man’s really made of. It’s one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin’ after a woman when she’s shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Shopping, Giving

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.136, Macmillan

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• And then, well . . . He might have slept for a bit. He rather hoped he was sleeping, because he was quite certain he’d seen a six-foot rabbit hopping through his bedchamber, and if that wasn’t a dream, they were all in very big trouble. Although really, it wasn’t the rabbit that was so dangerous as much as the giant carrot he was swinging about like a mace. That carrot would feed an entire village.

  Julia Quinn

  Dream, Sleep, Feet

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.183, Harlequin

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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Perfect, Imagination, Black

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• Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Hate, Eye

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Exercise, Firsts, Ifs

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• My mother helped me to get past that. She was always there for me, until she dies. I remember she told me once, about big hearts and small hearts, and that not everyone could be blessed with a big one that had room to care for a lot of people. She promised me that mine was big, and that I was the lucky one for it.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Mother, Blessed, Heart

  Johanna Lindsey (2004). “A Man to Call My Own: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

  John Irving

  Ice Cream, Issues, Newspapers

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.

  Steven Moffat

  Doctors, Giving, Crayon

  "Doctor Who / A Christmas Carol". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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