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• You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Brother, Lying

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin

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• Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Today

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• Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

  Patrick Ness

  Stories, Bites

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• Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

  Laini Taylor

  Skeletons, Self, Sky

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.40, Scholastic Inc.

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• No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

  Robin Hobb

  Warrior, Dragons, Quests

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.739, Spectra

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• Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Bed

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Secrets Of A Summer Night: Number 1 in series”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Funny Things, Giving

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

  Charles Bukowski

  Pet, Goldfish, Canaries

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.360, Canongate Books

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• If you want to know the Correct term for me, I'm a Dark-Hunter." Nick digested that word slowly. "Which means what? You hunt darkness?" "Yes, Nick. That's exactly what I do. There's just not enough of it." Now, there was some sarcasm you could cut with a knife.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Cutting, Dark

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• My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Wheat Fields, Monotonous Life

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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• I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

  Franz Kafka

  Rooms, Construction, Corners

  Franz Kafka (1948). “The diaries of Franz Kafka”, Schocken

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• If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Hell, Seven

  "How did that mind-blowing 'Game of Thrones' duel play out in the book?" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. June 2, 2014.

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• A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You know–you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?

  Gordon Korman

  Thinking, Names, Guy

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Eye, Charity

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Othello”, p.81, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Ifs, Seals

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Hunting, Games

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 5, l. 147

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• We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

  China Mieville

  Love You, Animal, Men

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• For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-" "I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?

  Rachel Vincent

  Cereal, Soul, Thieves

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thought Provoking, Thesaurus

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• I will howl for you, human boy (...). I will hunt you in my girl skin but I'll celebrate as wolf.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Girl, Boys, Skins

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• Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

  Lev Grossman

  Careful

  "The Magician King". Book by Lev Grossman, August 09, 2011.

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• History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Survivor

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.56, Random House

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Girl, Philosophical, Fighting

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Knives, Games, White

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• Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always fear." "But why must I fear him?" asked Rannoch. "Because, my little one...man is cruel and cold. He eats up everything he touches. He enslaves Lera and breaks the laws of the forest. Because, Rannoch, he is the only creature that hunts without need.

  David Clement-Davies

  Eye, Men, Law

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