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• I knew it. You’re an alien,” said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. “Yes, I’m an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I’m going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can’t really be friends.” “I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you’re stealing my boyfriend? That’s a step too far!

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Dog, House

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• Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Justice, Murder

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.209, DOSER Reads

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• What do you mean I have a predetermined death?” – Nick “Did I stutter?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Then you should understand what I said, since I didn’t speak in code. Every mortal creature is born with an expiration date. Some immortals, too. Set by the big clockmaker. But excessive stupidity and moronic tendencies can shorten it. Pissing me off is one really good way to cut yours down to three seconds from now.” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Cutting, Stupidity

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• (He went to Tory and with one more push, his son slid into his hands. For a full minute, he couldn’t breathe as he stared at the tiniest, most perfect creature he’d ever seen in his life.) “Is it a smurf?” - Tory

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Hands, Perfect

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.412, Macmillan

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• Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Abstract, Form

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

  Edward Gorey

  Wrath, Mad, Tiny

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• Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Evil, Different

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1134, Dell

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• HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Ice, Half

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.561, Bantam

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• We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

  Karl Popper

  Gratitude, Humility, Math

  "Karl Popper". Book by Bryan Magee, 1973.

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• Dancing? You, Poppy?" Marianne shook her head slowly. I never thought..." Rose looked concerned. She even felt Poppy's head for fever, but Poppy shook her off. "I don't know about you, Rose, but I'm done letting creatures like Under Stone and the Corley dictate my life. I enjoy dancing, and I will blasted well dance at my wedding!" "Poppy! Language!" Poppy didn't answer; she just threw her arms around Christian and kissed him soundly.

  Jessica Day George

  Christian, Rose, Dancing

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• Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

  C. S. Lewis

  Shells, Trouble, Force

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wise, May, Serpent

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

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• These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.

  Douglas Adams

  Dimensions, Mice

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.152, Del Rey

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• Yeah I know you're a creature of the night. Bringer of death, sucker of blood, needer of tans, so on and so forth. And oddly enough, I'm still unimpressed.

  Kiersten White

  Night, Blood, Enough

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• Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Night, Men

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• A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Butterfly, Movement

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Dark, Trying

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Boys, Long Ago, Expectations

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Dark, Long

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.148, Macmillan

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• The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Water, Design

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

  Michael Scott

  Dna, Secret, Creation

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• Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

  Richelle Mead

  Night, Evil, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• one more creature dizzy with love

  Charles Bukowski

  Dizzy

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.311, Canongate Books

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• ...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hair, Monk, Said

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)”, p.60, Random House

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