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• Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

  Archimedes

  Graduation, Determination, Moving

  Quoted in Pappus, Synagoge

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• Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.

  Jim Butcher

  Found You, Middle, Said

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• With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

  Stephen King

  Character, Screw Ups, Plot

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

  Norton Juster

  Knowing, Care, Matter

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Hurt, Vulnerable, Again And Again

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• From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Book, Pages Turning

  Rita Dove (1993). “Selected Poems”, Vintage

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• [s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

  Amy Waldman

  Fruit, Pessimist, Brown

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised. "Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Dream, Eyebrows

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• Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Pioneers

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Cry, Shelves

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• I have something for you," he said. He dug into his pocket and brought out something, which he pressed into her hand. It was a gray stone, slightly uneven, worn to smoothness in spots. "Huh," said Clary, turning it over in her fingers. "You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Mean, Rocks

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

  Neal Shusterman

  Bridges, Might, Gaps

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• You have a freckle here," he whispered, sweeping his tongue over a spot just under my jaw. "It drives me crazy every time you 're above me. I just want to do this..." The jentle draw of his mouth pushed me over the edge, and my knees tightened around his hips as i rocked against him.

  Tammara Webber

  Crazy, Mouths, Want

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• But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Feelings, Events, Ghost

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)

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• Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Squares, Careers

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• I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

  Dean Koontz

  Sweet, Balance, Reason

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.564, Bantam

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• Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Practice, Waiting, Realizing

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• She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

  David Levithan

  Loneliness, Bad Relationship, Profound

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• I had a soft spot for crazy people.

  Darynda Jones

  Crazy, People, Crazy People

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.9, St. Martin's Press

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• I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Focus, Feelings

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• When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Christian, Wall, Dark

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• Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

  Libba Bray

  Coffee, Book, Boys

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• Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

  Julian Barnes

  Eye, Bored, Looks

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.74, Random House

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• Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Caring, Thinking, Feelings

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.209, Penguin

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