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• I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you?

  Ally Carter

  Fighting, Gun, Boys

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• Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Important, Going Away

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.340, Penguin UK

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• We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

  Alex Scarrow

  Moments, Born

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.

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• Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded. "I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Care, Pedals

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• We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

  Holly Black

  Dying

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

  Ann Patchett

  Reading, Character, Mean

  "And the Winner Isn’t..." by Ann Patchett, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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• He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?" Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?" "A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly." "Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?" "It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Offering, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

  Mia Hamm

  Girl, Running, Littles

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• His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Brother, Expression

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.34, Penguin

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• Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Night, Light

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• I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity.” He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. “I can drain faster than you can run.

  Kiersten White

  Running, Thinking, Hands

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• If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

  Rick Riordan

  Pigs, Advice, Flying

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• A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.

  John Steinbeck

  Moving, Animal, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.477, Penguin

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• My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Blow, Thinking

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• Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Hero, Wind, Law

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• There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Summer, Simple, Joy

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• How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Long, Camels

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.

  Louise Erdrich

  Stars, Eye, Night

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.257, Odyssey Editions

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• You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.

  Melina Marchetta

  Horse, Journey, Agreement

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• "I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."

  Patricia Briggs

  Fire, Next Day, Fiction

  "Cry Wolf". Book by Patricia Briggs, July 2008.

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• Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Bread, Wonder

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• The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Wings, Bird

  "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, (Ch. V), 1972.

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• Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

  Taylor Swift

  Wind, Passionate, Driving

  Song: Red, Album: Red, 2012

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• Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster and with more energy!

  Darynda Jones

  Stupid, Coffee, Energy

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.220, St. Martin's Press

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• I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Made, Needed

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “A Place Called Here”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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