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• If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

  Temple Grandin

  Inspiring, Autism, Fingers

  Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Somewhere Under, Feelings, Ribs

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• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Appreciation, Spring

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• I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Real, Night

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• Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal." "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused.

  Simone Elkeles

  Thinking, Alex, Bigs

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• There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.

  Daniel Handler

  Order, Secret, Spy

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• [The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], "Wear-now-buy-now."

  Donna Karan

  Thinking, Bored, Confusing

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

  John Leguizamo

  Writing, School, Night

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• People, by nature, have a tendency to snap. We get upset at things. We get angry. I'm sure everybody has said, once or twice in their life, "God, I just want to kill you!" That's just a thought that we have. That's a natural thought. It is only when people act upon that, that it becomes this huge deal.

  Edwin Hodge

  People, Upset, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I have kids. Unbeknownst to them, they are quick to snap me back to reality when I start feeling the pressure of being an athlete! It's a breath of fresh air to have two people to focus on; their happiness erases all the pressures I have on myself.

  Amanda Beard

  Kids, Athlete, Reality

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

  Laini Taylor

  Angel, Two, Once Upon A Time

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Ignorance, Names, Warning

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• She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

  J. K. Rowling

  Feelings, Might, Cry

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• I’ll be damned,” he muttered.“Most likely.” She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. “And I may be joining you, after what we just did.

  Tessa Dare

  May, Joining, Blanket

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• One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

  Robin Hobb

  Self, True Self, Walks

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.203, Spectra

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• There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Numbers, Long

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• Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him. 'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Song, Dirty, Odds

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• our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Training, First Impression

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• Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets." "Hey! My dad drives a minivan." "Snap.

  Judy Blundell

  Dad, Boys, Knees

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• Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—

  Gena Showalter

  Book, Needs, Plunder

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Twice as Hot”, p.18, Harlequin

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• You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

  Michael Connelly

  Dust, Games, Balls

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• Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Hands, Lips

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Feelings, Deep Feeling, Cents

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• Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Skills, Oil, Necks

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.399, Vintage Canada

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• Ant 1: So, uh, do you ever worry that your itsy little neck is just going to snap under the weight of your head? Ant 2: Stop asking me that. You ask me that, like, every five minutes. Ant 1: Sometimes I notice my antennae out of the corner of my eye and I'm all, like: AHH! Something is on me! Get it off! Get it off! Ant 2: Yeah, the antennae again. Listen, I just remembered, I have to go walk around aimlessly now.

  Jim Benton

  Eye, Worry, Ants

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