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• Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?" "Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?" My jaw dropped. "What?" "Are you going out with that Cormac guy?" "We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?" "Uh-huh." "And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea?

  Carrie Vaughn

  Thinking, Air, Talking

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• I'm the best," Elena muttered to herself the next morning s she got out of the taxi in front of the magnificient creation that was Archangel Tower. "Hey, lady, you gonna pay me or just talk to yourself?" "What? Oh.... Keep the change." ... "...you got a big hunt coming on?" Elena didn't ask how he'd pegged her for a hunter. "No. But I do have a high chance of meeting a horrible death within the next few hours. Might as well do something good as up my shot at getting into heaven.

  Nalini Singh

  Morning, Heaven, Hunters

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• I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.

  Charlaine Harris

  Flesh, Sids, Share

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.947, Penguin

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• Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Drink, Liquor

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, Law, Community

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

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• If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Morning, Clouds, Sky

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• Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Meat, Facts

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• If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Down And, Ifs

  Flannery O'Connor (2015). “Wise Blood”, p.92, Faber & Faber

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• I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

  Markus Zusak

  Down And

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.303, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.

  John Green

  Stars, Sorry, Real

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• Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stronger, Want, Hunger

  "Fictional character: Gale Hawthorne". "The Hunger Games", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Muslim Extremists, President, Extremist

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• Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.

  Isobelle Carmody

  People, Worry, Waiting

  Isobelle Carmody (2011). “Obernewtyn: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book One”, p.75, A&C Black

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• I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

  Karen Chance

  Moon, Hitting, Chance

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• So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have a feeling his ego isn't going to go for that suggestion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Ego, Feelings, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.315, Scholastic Inc.

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• Knock, knock. You have the day to hide. Come nightfall, we hunt. (Desiderius) Yeah, yeah...you and your little dog, too. (Kyrian) You're not scared of his threats? (Amanda) Chere, the day I fear something like him is the day I lie down at his feet and hand him the knife to cut my heart out. The only fear I have is getting you back to your sister and convincing High Queen Hard Head to leave off this matter until I can locate Desiderius and send his soul into oblivion where it belongs. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Queens, Lying

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• I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Love You, Fighting, House

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more”, p.122, e-artnow

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• You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

  Holly Black

  Pain, Agents, Fists

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.

  Jenny Downham

  Autumn, Three, Coffins

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• Playboy stretched his arm, patting Carlos on the back. "Well, you know what they say: If you love someone, let'em go. If they don't come back, hunt'em down and kill'em!

  Alex Sanchez

  Ems, If You Love Someone, Arms

  Alex Sanchez (2008). “Getting It”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think I’ll be okay. (Kat) Yeah, you do have the history of absolute terror and cruelty in your veins. (Sin) Remember that if you ever come between me and my chocolate bar. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

  William Goldman

  Thinking, Hunting, Track

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.176, A&C Black

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• I warn you now. Anything happens to my mate or my son, we will hunt you down and rip you into so many pieces they’ll never find all of you. (Vane)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Son, Pieces

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, J. R. Ward, Susan Squires, Dianna Love (2008). “Dead After Dark”, p.41, Macmillan

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• When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

  Andrew Vachss

  Weakness, Camouflage, Predator

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Sacrifice”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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