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• Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much I love your father.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Father, Order

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• ...Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar gave me this awesome luggage freshener with a clock attached!" Federal regulations require them to have no idea you're joking as they riddle your body with bullets.

  Seanbaby

  Sarcastic, Nice, Men

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• Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Found Dead, Panty Hose

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• Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Art, Inspiration, Warrior

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• I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Husband, Sacrifice

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• I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

  Roald Dahl

  Past, Bombs, Down And

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.102, Penguin

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• There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Lonely, Sacrifice, Doubt

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• Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

  James Clavell

  Decision, Right Time, Knows

  James Clavell (2008). “King Rat”, p.180, Dell

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• Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.

  James Patterson

  Mom, Lying, Calling

  James Patterson (2005). “The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• No, whoever was out there didn't want to take her in. But his sights were on her, gun sights, steady. Clear. She stared into them, and with a mocking smile, mouthed the words, I dare you!" (Cassie Sinclair) *** He smiled at the challenge. One day, she just might dare him too far, but he doubted it would be a bullet he'd penetrate her with. (Unknown Breed)

  Lora Leigh

  Gun, Sight, Challenges

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• I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

  O. Henry

  Mushrooms, People, Bars

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.131, Delphi Classics

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• Then what happens? Diana demanded “Then were hit with massive doeses of radiation. It’s invisible, but its like someone is shooting tiny bullets at you. They blow millions of tiny holes through your body. You get sick. Your hair falls out. You vomit. You die

  Michael Grant

  Fall, Blow, Hair

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• The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

  Andrew Vachss

  Flying, Slugs, Individual

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• So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mean, Towels, Study

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• I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?" Nora, Crescendo

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Simple, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he was playing quick draw in the police station elevator and his gun accidentally discharged. The bullet ricocheted off the elevator wall and lodged in Gazarra's right buttock.

  Janet Evanovich

  Wall, Hate, Gun

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

  Meg Cabot

  Waiting, Brain, Starks

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.201, Scholastic Inc.

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• He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.

  Libba Bray

  War, Lying, Fall

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• I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Loneliness, Heart

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.407, Penguin

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• I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

  Susan Abulhawa

  Years, Example, Watches

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.80, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

  Henry Rollins

  Cracks, Condom, Knows

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• There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

  Richelle Mead

  Missing, Criminals, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1332, Penguin

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• She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

  James Ellroy

  Past, Self, Missing

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• You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". Interview with Rachel Martin and Mike Pesca, www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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