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• I walk down the steps of the verandah towards her and with shaking hands she holds my face between them, sobbing, "Look at my beautiful girl.

  Melina Marchetta

  Beautiful, Girl, Hands

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.260, Penguin UK

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• Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hair, Guy, Bugs

  Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K Dick”, p.946, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I couldn't help shaking my head as I looked at him. Ian slept like a baby every morning - well, a baby who continually kept one hand down his pants.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Baby, Morning, Hands

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• Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

  Chris Cleave

  Cry, Pity, Understood

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse monsters, we admire them. Seek to become them, in some ways." Her eyes became distant. "There are far, far worse things to be than a monster.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Song, Strong

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• Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Said, Nature Of Man

  Julia Quinn (2009). “How to Marry a Marquis”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

  Jennifer Egan

  Morning, Past, Hair

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask — and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created." Jaenelle’s eyes widened. “You let her drink a ‘gravedigger’?” “No no no,” Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. “You shouldn’t ever drink a gravedigger until he’s had a bath.” She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her. “Mother Night,” Lucivar muttered. “Do you know that song?” Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle.

  Anne Bishop

  Mother, Song, Home

  Anne Bishop (2000). “Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3”, p.144, Penguin

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• And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Eye, Laughing

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• What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness

  David Wilkerson

  Soul, Tears, Down And

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• I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

  Amy Hempel

  Sleep, Glasses, Water

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
  Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
  Thundering, shaking the concrete.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Sweat, Feet

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• Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only slowly, and with many pangs is even Protestantism shaking off the religion about Christ.

  Lewis Browne

  Religious, Organization, Intellectual

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• Take a sip from the cup of death...
  And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

  Ol' Dirty Bastard

  Rap, Hands, Hip Hop

  Song: Cuttin' Headz, 1995

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• I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Memories, Vampire, Teeth

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.2055, Penguin

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• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  Oliver Cromwell

  God, Historian

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• It's so scary. And then I end up getting so nervous that I get like [I am] now. I get really hyper. [Squeals.] So then I go in interviews and I'm like, 'I'm like a chihuahua! I'm shaking and peeing!' And then afterwards, I'm like, 'I just talked about peeing on the red carpet.'

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Scary, Red

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• Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Real

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• Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, 'what are you smiling about?' But I already know the answer: 'It just gets better from here.'

  Michael J. Fox

  Glasses, Self, Expression

  "Always Looking Up". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. September 2008.

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• Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

  Ross Perot

  Mistake, Moving, Creativity

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• He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Christmas, Knees, Toes

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• Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

  Thurgood Marshall

  Baby, Justice, Burgers

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• Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze. Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony; Will told him.

  John Flanagan

  Sorry, Apology, Agony

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• The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.

  J.R. Ward

  Feet, Jumping, Doors

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.120, Penguin

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• We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

  William Peter Blatty

  Personality, Mind, Use

  William Peter Blatty (1971). “The Exorcist”

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