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• Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mother, Brother, Believe

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• He looked at me. " I do know how to deal with demons, Savannah." "I know. Sorry." "So I get a hug?" "No, but I won't smack you, and we'll call it even.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sorry, Hug, Savannah

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• Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking that there's always possibility that they could have missed something, somewhere... But in return, the excitement you experience when your theory's smack bang correct is twice as great!

  Gosho Aoyama

  Reality, Thinking, Bangs

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• You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, People, Faces

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• She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Epic, Long, Safe

  Kelley Armstrong (2013). “Omens: The Cainsville Series”, p.320, Random House Canada

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• How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, People, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal”

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• Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Thinking, Two

  Julia Quinn (2015). “The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're not a-" She cut herself off in mid-sentence as she realized what she'd almost let slip. Suzy's wedding ring clicked against the steering wheel as she gave it a hard smack. "I'm going to kill him! He's been telling that hooker story again, hasn't he?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Believe, Cutting

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• I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Goal, Littles, Way

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

  Jerry Garcia

  Mean, Giving, Needs

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• For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Taken

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• When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

  Prince

  Eight, President, Found

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• I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

  Kid Rock

  Want, Vote

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• Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

  Daniel Handler

  Feet, Junk, Taffy

  FaceBook post by Daniel Handler from Aug 23, 2011

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• Be prepared. *smacks chest*

  John Bytheway

  Be Prepared, Prepared, Chests

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• I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Water, Add

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• OY! Stop playing around and lets cook already!" *smack* J-just now, that made a really loud noise.." Do you wanna hear it again?" N-no, you'll just hit me again!" Kyo and Tohru

  Natsuki Takaya

  Noise, Made, Loud

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• Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Crush, Laughing, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the creak of ropes; then he heard the wave-against-a-wharf smack of rubber on flesh. Her call for him to hurry was a sea-moan, and when he lay beside her, she heaved, tidal, moon-driven.

  Nathanael West

  Dark, Moon, Sea

  Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.

  Toni Morrison

  Stars, Taken, Cutting

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• Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

  Bono

  Contradiction, Centre

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• Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hands, Ideas, People

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.48, Random House

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• If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

  Rachel Caine

  Faces, Ask Me, Okay

  Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.80, Penguin

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• [Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise."

  Arthur Fry

  Wall, Science, Opportunity

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• Every song a hit, every hit a smack!

  Colin Mochrie

  Song

  "Whose Line Is It Anyway?/ Show No. 103". Comedy, Game-Show, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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