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• Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins.” “Magic penguins?” “Don’t ask.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, Couple, Egypt

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• You think of me as a... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Thinking, Stones

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

  Shan Sa

  Mirrors, Ice, Water

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• Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.

  Shan Sa

  Pain, Sleep, Eye

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• Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sex, Women, Eye

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• I just don’t see how anyone can be so cold. (Kiara) And you should be grateful, little girl, to whatever god you worship, that you can say that. In the world we come from, I don’t understand how anyone can be anything but cold. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Grateful, World

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Drinking, Cutting, Air

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.58, A&C Black

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• You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Dream, Falling In Love, War

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.311, Delacorte Press

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• There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Angel, Eye, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon (2006). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880-1887”, p.85, Rutgers University Press

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• Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Rushing, Yelling, Vegetables

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• Ugh! Why couldn’t anyone ever trust her? She wasn’t a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.’ (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Sunshine, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.64, St. Martin's Press

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• I just know that I’m not willing to let anything happen to you. When Nynia died, I was so lost and cold, and I haven’t been warm since. Not until I felt your hands on me. The only way I’ve been able to cope without you is to bury what I feel, but I can’t seem to do that anymore. When I’m with you all I can do is feel and need. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Able, Way

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.324, Macmillan

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• Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

  Edna Ferber

  Sweet Love, Writing, Emo Love

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Beach, Blue, White

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• Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We’re in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Alaska, Vengeance, Dishes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.314, Macmillan

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• And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.

  Ally Carter

  Spring, Thinking, Glasses

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• I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.

  Claudia Gray

  Fire, Way, Rooms

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• Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Breathing, Steps, Thirds

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.475, Scholastic Inc.

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• What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

  Doris Lessing

  Lonely, Cat, Eye

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• Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Promise, Important, Facts

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.

  John Marsden

  Tired, Past, Knees

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep

  James Frey

  Sleep, Winter, Gone

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.56, Anchor

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• On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Philip Pullman (2017). “The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you

  Ring Lardner

  Sweet, Dark, Night

  Ring Lardner (2013). “Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings”, p.702, Library of America

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• Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Temptation, Example

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