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• I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Real, Eye, Jeans

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.772, Simon and Schuster

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• In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

  Julia Child

  Fighting, Ideas, Blood

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.184, Anchor

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• Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

  Mark Strand

  Summer, Strong, Passion

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.406, Knopf

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• The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.

  Jack London

  Zero, Men, Imagination

  Jack London (2008). “To Build a Fire”, p.6, The Creative Company

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• In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hands, Sun, Campfire

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.51, Random House

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• He dipped his head, placing his mouth to the space below her ear. He nipped her there, just a tiny bite that sent a wave of heat through her veins. And then his lips moved lower, leaving a hot trail behind. “You drive me insane, absolutely freaking insane. Do you know that? I bet you do.

  J. Lynn

  Space, Leaving, Insane

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• Basement?' Hamish cried, then glanced at his brother. 'You hear this fellow? He thinks we can just go on down to the furnace and start tinkering?' Angus laughed. 'He probably wouldn't care at all if the whole place went boom, he wouldn't.' At this the guard bristled and stood up even straighter. 'Now see here---' 'No, you see, my good man. Out here, see, we've got snow. So in there, I'd bet, you've got heat. And where there's heat there's gas; and where there's gas there's...' Angus trailed off while his brother said, 'boom.

  Ally Carter

  Brother, Men, Thinking

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• Jacks stood beside her. Instead of saying anything, she felt his fingers trace up her palm and then lace into hers. He had taken her hand before, quickly and for functional reasons—usually to drag her off to someplace she didn’t want to go—but he had never held her hand. Not the way couples did in parks or lovers did in old movies. Maddy stood there and felt the heat of his grip. It made her think of that first night in the diner, when they had talked about pretend memories and she had felt so connected to him.

  Scott Speer

  Couple, Memories, Taken

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• He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.

  Ann Aguirre

  Moon, Fire, Mets

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.172, Macmillan

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• I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

  Lucy Christopher

  People, Red, Kind

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• It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me simply because I felt heat and cold, pain and loneliness as they did. Now this was gone once and for all, and I understood there were no exceptions and on one was invulnerable, we all had to share the same conditions and in the end this was simply mortality, the mortality of things as well as ourselves. After that I didn't expect anybody to love me.

  MacDonald Harris

  Pain, Loneliness, Unique

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• So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Rocks, Foundation, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Eye, Fire

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.857, Simon and Schuster

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• Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Numbers, Inches

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.195, Penguin

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• She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

  Christine Feehan

  Flames, Forever, Leaving

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Wild Fire”, p.118, Penguin

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• Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

  David Gemmell

  Warrior, Pride, Fire

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• I started to duck under the spears, only to have the two vamps on the other wall suddenly appear in my face. Or, at least, their crotches did. Another day, I would have made a cute remark about heat and leather jock straps, but I wasn’t feeling real cute right now.

  Karen Chance

  Cute, Wall, Real

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.376, Penguin

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• Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Fighting, Allies, Sometimes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

  Saul Alinsky

  Issues, Hot, Action

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• Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Hands, Trying

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

  Philip Larkin

  Weed, Beach, Distance

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.

  Lucy Christopher

  Taken, Airports, Stories

  "Storm-Wake". Book by Lucy Christopher, April 5, 2018.

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• Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Talking, Sky, Voice

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• He’d moved toward me again. His hands released mine and moved to my waist, and I noticed I wasn’t the only one breathing heavily. He pulled me to him, bringing our bodies together. The world was all heat and electricity, thick with tension that was only one spark away from exploding around us. I was balancing on another precipice, which wasn’t easy to do in heels. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and this time I was the one who drew him closer.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Breathing, Together

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• What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lust, Fantasy, Grows

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.231, Random House

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