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• They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

  Jennifer Egan

  Eye, Thoughtful, Men

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.274, Anchor

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• From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  People, Grew Up, Wanted

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• The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

  Johnny Cash

  Beer, Dying, Cotton

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• The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

  Lauren Oliver

  Garden, Eden, Apples

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• He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Men, World, Emotion

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.258, A&C Black

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• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Done, Enough

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

  Margery Williams

  Beautiful, Real, Boys

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

  Abraham Verghese

  Ignorance, Proportion

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.86, Random House India

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• Susan was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Summer, Brother, Fun

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, 1999.

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• They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

  Sara Gruen

  Horse, Children, Matter

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• Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Dad, Advice

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• ...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Children, Two

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• Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Breathing, Air, Bricks

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.27, A&C Black

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• At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.

  David James Duncan

  Pain, Real, Heart

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• When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

  Gena Showalter

  Wife, World, Want

  Gena Showalter (2011). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.310, HQN Books

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• Now that was informative" were her first words. "Catherine, you never told me that no matter how many times you sliced something off a vampire, it grew back" Charming, "Guess I don't have to ask if you had a nice time.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Nice, Vampire, Matter

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

  Gail Carriger

  Home, Ideas, Long

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• Wow,” Kylie muttered, and grinned. “Yeah, wow.” Della leaned in closer. “I think Perry just grew a pair.” Kylie bit down on her lip to keep from laughing. “If this was a movie, there would be some music playing in the background.” “I could sing,” Della chuckled. “And ruin it,” Kylie teased back. “I’ve heard you singing in the shower.” Both grinning, they looked back at the kissing couple.

  C.C. Hunter

  Couple, Kissing, Thinking

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.69, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Beach, Sea, Two

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• No,” he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.” Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice.

  Nalini Singh

  Beautiful, Blue, Voice

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.71, Penguin

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• I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dad, Men, Interesting

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Bloodfever”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Hard Work, Secret, Finding Yourself

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, progressive.org. January 1, 2010.

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• Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in a loving, sane family. You could take a risk like that. But in my family we didn't go around saying we loved each other. We went around screaming at each other. So what do I do, when you say you love me? I go and undermine it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Risk, Remember, My Family

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• I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

  Craig Thompson

  Heaven, World, Misery

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• Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Hunger, Appetite

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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