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• She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Hymns, Snow

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.436, Penguin

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• A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

  Anne Bishop

  Lying, Thinking, Sitting

  Anne Bishop (1998). “Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy”, p.75, Penguin

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• How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.

  A. E. Housman

  Beautiful, Strong, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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• God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities. God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't believe.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Dream, Determination, Prayer

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• Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.

  Wendy Mass

  Cat, Eye, Thinking

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• When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Broken, Doe, Bent

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Iron, Cairo

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.6, Macmillan

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• It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nice, Night, Men

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• Well then,' said Femworth as he came to his feet, 'let's go. Sounds like a delightful challenge before supper. Stimulate the appetite, or kill it. Interesting either way.

  Donita K. Paul

  Feet, Interesting, Challenges

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• Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

  Gary Gygax

  Art, Games, Rpgs

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• You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.

  Nora Roberts

  Love Of My Life, Care, Corny

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• And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.

  Vikram Chandra

  Pain, Snakes, Feet

  Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.277, Faber & Faber

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• You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

  Tamora Pierce

  Smart, Stupid, Shallow Person

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.118, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

  Meg Cabot

  Life Is Like, One Day, Details

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• Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Judgment, Fortune

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.54, Sparklesoup LLC

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• This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wise, Voice, Forever

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

  Haruki Murakami

  Oil, Trying, Musician

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.78, Random House

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• When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Writing, Mph

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• I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Simple, Sea

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.

  Jenny Downham

  Broken, Going Away, Moments

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

  Jenny Downham

  Blessed, Fall, Kissing

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• My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Cracks, Flaws, Thee

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 413

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• With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Struggle, Lips

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Psychology Press

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