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• Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

  Stephen King

  Years, Here I Am, Two

  Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

  Pamela Dean

  Art, Years, Giving

  Pamela Dean (2006). “Tam Lin”, p.17, Penguin

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• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Flower, Butterfly, Mind

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

  Jan Karon

  Book, Two, Feet

  Jan Karon (1998). “Out to Canaan”, p.187, Penguin

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• She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart

  Ayn Rand

  Children, Growing Up, Night

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• My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

  Dan Brown

  Breakfast, Lawyer, Planes

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

  Edith Wharton

  Leaving, Mind, Addresses

  Edith Wharton (2012). “Short Stories”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Writing, Diversity

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!

  Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

  Home, Giving, Lazy

  FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”

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• Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “A woman's essays: selected essays, volume one”

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• Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Pain, Ironing Board, White

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.290, Zola Books

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• Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Fall, Crumbs, Careless

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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• At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Smoking, Hats, Bigs

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

  Ted Dekker

  War, Games, Stories

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Book, Fate

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.17, Penguin

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• Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I’ll...I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Past, Doors

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.217, Penguin

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• All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Rivers, Waiting, Way

  Elizabeth George Speare (1958). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Simple, People

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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• We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Cutting, Animal

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.294, e-artnow

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• [Riley] slapped his hands to his face and then dropped them as if in surrender. 'I always say the wrong thing around you. Look, can we start over?' Over?" Yes. Over. Wipe the board clean.' But I would have to go back to hating you and not trusting you' I said Oh, well don't do that.' He paused and chewed his lip. 'Does that mean you like and trust me now?' " - Riley and Trella

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Mean, Hands

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• Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Names, Three, Wave

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.175, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

  Libba Bray

  Cows, Marigolds

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• Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence." "I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake." "That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not.

  Margaret Stohl

  Aunt, Cake, White

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• Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Son, Dark

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small group by the tiller. Halt glanced up as they approached, caught a look from Gilan and had a pretty good idea what they had been talking about. "Where have you two been?" he asked, his tone light. admiring the view," Gilan told him. "Thought you might need a hand from the two wisest heads on board.

  John Flanagan

  Men, Light, Views

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