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• Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. "I gotta get me a pair if those," she said, eyeballing my shorts. "I've still got pretty good legs, you know." She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. "What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things?" Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Grandma, Thinking

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• a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Disappointment, Drinking, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.77, Penguin

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• He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.

  Nicole Krauss

  Morning, Eye, Night

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• Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Cowboy, Blue

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• All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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• Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.

  John Connolly

  Song, Real, Lying

  "The John Connolly Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts".

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• When she didn't say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Feet, Say Anything

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• Look, this isn’t The Mummy. It’s not like a teenaged girl’s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It’s just the story of her innocuous life. What on earth could an ancient girl have known that would be worth killing someone over? (Tory) You’re asking me that question? People kill each other over a pair of shoes or for wearing the same jacket. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Killing Someone, Shoes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.547, St. Martin's Press

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• Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Anime, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

  Warren Ellis

  Running, Space Flight, Way

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• I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Iodine, Water

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sabrina turned back to the house and saw the horrible truth- a pair of legs was sticking out from beneath it and they were wearing a pari of shiny silver shoes with a remarkable red tint to them. She suddenly realized they hadn't just entered a story. They had entered one of the most famous stories ever told. "Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferryport Landing anymore.

  Michael Buckley

  Thinking, Shoes, House

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• Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

  Paul Stewart

  Wise, Worn, Underpants

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• ...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Fifty, Pants, Spite

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. “Did anyone else notice—” “Yes,” Catherine said. “What do you make of it?” “I haven’t decided yet.” Leo frowned and took a sip of port. “He’s not someone I would pair Bea with.” “Whom would you pair her with?” “Hanged if I know,” Leo said. “Someone with similar interests. The local veterinarian, perhaps?” “He’s eighty-three years old and deaf,” Catherine said. “They would never argue,” Leo pointed out.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Years, Silence, Three

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.

  Rick Riordan

  Glowing, Legs, Red

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

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• A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Badass, Real, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.816, Simon and Schuster

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• The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.50, New World Library

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• This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dark, Mouths, Scent

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• They had seen Zarek take out a pair of Daimons. Great. Just great. He closed his eyes and cursed. This night was starting to rate right up there with abscessed teeth.’ (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Night, Teeth

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.554, Macmillan

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• Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there’s a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Dark

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• Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

  Robert Harris

  Men, Hands, Luxury

  Robert Harris (2008). “The Ghost”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

  Michael Chabon

  Steel, Locks, Only Love

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• She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Running, Way

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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