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• That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.

  Richelle Mead

  Memories, Eye, Passionate

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.104, Penguin

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• My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

  Rumi

  Heart, Soul, Crow

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• Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

  Libba Bray

  Horse, Mean, Tea

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• At first I was protecting you two because I promised. Now even if I hadn't promised, I would. You two are like kittens to me. I won't fail you again." I'll admit I got a lump in my throat. I'd never been called someone's kitten before. Sadie sniffled. She brushed something from under her eye. "You're not going to wash us, are you?

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Two, Firsts

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• A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  Robert Frost

  Expression, Effort, Emotion

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Water, Tiny

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  New York, Moving, Bridges

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• ...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.

  Sara Gruen

  Jello, Red, Breasts

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• Get up, you useless lump, get up!

  J. K. Rowling

  Useless, Get Up

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.26, Pottermore

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• Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Self, People, Principles

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• It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Gestures, Juxtaposition, Affection

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.89, Vintage

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• Who are you?" he asked. "I'm a shabti, of course!" The figurine rubbed his dented head. He still looked quite lumpish, only now he was a living lump. "Master calls me Doughboy, though I find the name insulting. You may call me Supreme-Force-Who-Crushes-His-Enemies!

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Names, Insulting

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Moon, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.

  Veronica Roth

  Daughter, Children, Hair

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• When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

  Marge Piercy

  Best Love, Chocolate, Milk

  Marge Piercy (2012). “Vida”, p.114, PM Press

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• Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Oatmeal, Life Is

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.147, Ivy Books

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• Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Waiting, Coal, Diamond

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• Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

  Joss Whedon

  Baby, Half, Weight

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight". Comic Book Series by Joss Whedon, 2007 - 2011.

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• If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘ Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. ‘Consider me warned,’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Laughing, Nerves

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• What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Shells, Alive, Flesh

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• You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt like I was using every muscle in my face. But I did it. I saw you from upside down, your lips above my eyes and your eyes above my lips. "Talk to me," you said. My throat felt like it was closing up, as if my skin had swollen, making my throat a lump of solid flesh. I gripped your hand. "Keep watching me, then," you said. "Keep listening.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lying, Eye, Hands

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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• See this pebble?" "Yes." "Take it." Eragon did and stared at the unremarkable lump. It was dull black, smooth, and as large as the end of his thumb. There were countless stones like it on the trail. "This is your training." Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking or we'll never get anywhere.

  Christopher Paolini

  Confused, Teaching, Talking

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Powerful, Lying, Book

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.127, Random House

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• Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Past, Ready

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