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• You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Spring, Gun

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• I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Morning, Felt

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• I heard the car door shut and then Fabian's voice. "You won't believe what I found around the edge of your property," the ghost announced. "A cave with prehistoric painting inside it!" I rolled my eyes. That was the best tactic Fabian could come up with? This was a vampire he was trying to stall, not a paleontologist.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Eye, Doors

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• Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would I have to feel so dizzy and sick. Than maybe when I woke up, all of this would go away and I'd find it was all just a bad dream. The mist started to turn dark around the edges.....For the record: fainting sucks.

  Jenna Black

  Dream, Dark, Ideas

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• The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

  Leila Aboulela

  Ocean, Tree, Clay

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.

  Christopher Paolini

  Giving Up, Who I Am, I Won't Give Up

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!" "Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.

  Erin Hunter

  Voice, Mouths, Newcomers

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• That's enough of that," Jesse said. Next thing I knew, he'd scooped me up. Only instead of carrying me to my bed and setting me down on it all romantically, you know, like guys do to girls in the movies, he just dumped me onto it, so I bounced around and would have fallen off if I hadn't grabbed the edge of the mattress. "Thanks," I said, not quite able to keep all of the sarcasm out of my voice.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Sarcasm, Voice

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Grave Doubts”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

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• Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dirty, Knives, Two

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.313, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sound, Heard

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Knowing, Comfort

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ...Lena

  Kami Garcia

  Letting Go, Eye, Thinking

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• Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

  Lauren Oliver

  Orange, Black, Red

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million sensations, all of them hot, all of them rich, all of them straddling the razor-sharp edge of pain, ripped through his loins like a flash fire and stripped him of everything but consciousness. "Tuyo. Todo que tengo es tuyo." Yours. Everything I have is yours.

  Cindy Gerard

  Pain, Heart, Son

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• Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hurt, Bags, Want

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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• Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

  Markus Zusak

  Husband, Moving, Keys

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• Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Blades, Wounds

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.842, Wordsworth Editions

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• And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail caught the edge of a statue, sending it flying into the dry ornamental pool, where it shattered into dust. “By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles,” noted Will. “Has no one respect for the classics these days?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Dust, Arrows

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• I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Alcohol, Lucky

  "Christopher Hitchens - Q&A (2010) lyrics". Interview with Brian Lamb, lyrics.az. 2010.

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• Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

  Gregory Maguire

  Bird, Horizon, Maps

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• Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Wise, Running, Father

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• Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

  Michelle Sagara

  Two Sides, Forever, Coins

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Courtlight”, p.217, MIRA

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• I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it would get us a head of Atari in the phone book. He told Wozniak if a better name did not hit them by the next afternoon, they would just stick with apple and they did.  1 Apr 1976 

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• …beating time along the edge of thought.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.26, Anchor

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• Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Gun, Mouths, Wonder

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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