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• Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Heart, Night, Long

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2163, Dell

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• I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

  Chaim Potok

  Eye, Men, Long

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, Awful, Proven

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.100, Harper Collins

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• "If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity." Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad."

  Richard Russo

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  "Empire Falls". Book by Richard Russo, May 8, 2001.

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• I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay.

  Janet Fitch

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Deep Water, Wind

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.82, Modern Library

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• Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.

  Haruki Murakami

  Night, Thinking, Light

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• Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Letting Go, Cheer, Spring

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But Lunch Isn't That Bad, Really Once I get used to having to eat with two people instead of one. Two people who have known each other for such a long time that they practically speak in code. Two people who are always saying, "Remember the time when this happened?" and "Remember the time when that happened?" (Which, of course, I never do, because I wasn't there.) Well, okay, it is that bad. It sucks, even.

  Sonya Sones

  Two, Lunch, Long

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

  Darren Shan

  Animal, Night, Long

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• I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

  Nick Burd

  Reflection, Mirrors, Long

  Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.147, Penguin

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• If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Mother, Believe, Long

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• I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Long, Earth, Said

  Guy De Maupassant (2012). “The Horla”, p.11, Melville House

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• Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

  Guy de Maupassant

  Thinking, People, Long

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• Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

  Alice Sebold

  Long, Gone, Someone You Love

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Would Be, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography ; Translated by Walter Arndt ; Foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, p.166, UPNE

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• You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

  Edward Albee

  Men, Names, Long

  Edward Albee (2004). “The Collected Plays of Edward Albee”, Overlook Press

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• I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Long, Special

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1237, Simon and Schuster

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• I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Long, Waiting

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• For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.

  Albert Camus

  Taken, Home, Long

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His howl trembled, rose, fell in anguish. I listened for a long time. I prayed for them to stop, to leave me alone, but at the same time I was desperately afraid they would. Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow. When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Heart, Night, Voice

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.254, Scholastic Inc.

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• Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Summer, Girl, Dream

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago." Then what-?" Jayfeather began, but already Yellowfang's shape was beginning to fade, melting into the moonlight until she was gone. The moonlight abrubtly vanished, leaving Jayfeather in darkness as he woke from his dream. Mouse dung! Why can't any cat speak straight out?" he hissed

  Erin Hunter

  Dream, Lying, Cat

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• Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

  Charles Dickens

  Long, Vengeance, Retribution

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

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• Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

  Edith Wharton

  Long, Heaven, Century

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.11, VM eBooks

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