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• People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sight, Agreement, Eerie

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• The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Creativity, Exercise, Simple

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

  Justin Cronin

  Eye, Army, Flames

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• It's a hard life, but it's the only life we have. And sometimes-' he pointed to a bright flash of lightening, its jagged light stretching from the sky to the ground, '-it's still beautiful. Sometimes you find something that makes this all worth it. And when you do, you hang onto it for as long as you can.' He turned to me, shrugging one shoulder. 'That's the best you can do.

  Amanda Hocking

  Beautiful, Light, Sky

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• We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Army, Night

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would go on, rising and falling. The land would keep stretching ahead until it hit the sea. People would keep dying. It made no difference if Harold walked, or trembled, or stayed at home.

  Rachel Joyce

  Fall, Home, Moon

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• In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Talking, Office

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• Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

  Wallace Stevens

  Stars, Power, Moon

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• A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.

  Stella Chess

  Running, Baby, Children

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• I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British-

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Teenage, Cat

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• Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.

  Barbara Holland

  Real, Shoes, Roots

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• By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

  Jean Genet

  Language, Wraps

  Jean Genet (1994). “The Blacks: A Clown Show”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The truth I've discovered is that you don't have to lift enormous weights to grow muscle. By using stricter form, slower negatives, and stretching between sets you can get an incredible pump in all your workouts. Numbers are an abstraction, especially to muscles. Your body doesn't know the absolute weight of what you lift, it only recognizes how heavy it feels. The secret is to make lighter weights feel heavier.

  Frank Zane

  Workout, Numbers, Secret

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• An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

  Joë Bousquet

  Echoes, Wind, Body

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• There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Philosophy, Past, President

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered

  Patricia Highsmith

  Flower, White, People

  Patricia Highsmith (2011). “The Price of Salt”, p.206, She Winked Press

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• Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Archer, Sight

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• I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Horse

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• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Church Bells, Years

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.25, Vintage

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• Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Eye, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind.
  Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness,
  where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience,
  all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

  Longchenpa

  Lying, Ambition, Reality

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• There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

  Stephen Colbert

  Taffy, Delicious

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Powerful, Dark, Fire

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

  Laura M. Brotherson

  Soul, Growth, Easier

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• Birth
  is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
  stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
  of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
  The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
  inner trust.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Pregnancy, Challenges, Limits

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