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• He doesn't have to say it, i feel it too; it's not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once, loud and clanging, hungry ones and tiny, happy, chiming ones, all of them sounding off in this moment. I put my hands around his neck, pull him to me, and then he's kissing me hard and so deep, and i am flying, sailing, soaring.

  Jandy Nelson

  Kissing, Hands, Flying

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• Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sleep, Understanding, Touching

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.222, Penguin

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• You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses. . . I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death — if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Believe, Magic

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• Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

  Tom Robbins

  Weather, Tea, Quality

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.145, Bantam

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• They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

  Maureen Johnson

  Together, Normal, Enough

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• Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Thinking, Feet

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Perfect, Imagination, Black

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• Laney held up a hand. "I checked it out. He went there on scholarship and paid the rest with student loans. And he's good looking, too. Nate and I met him for dinner last night, and I subtly learned that he's looking to meet someone" "How did you learn that?" "I asked him if he was looking to meet someone" "that is subtle

  Julie James

  Night, Hands, Dinner

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• We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

  Ilona Andrews

  Names, Looks, Odd

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.44, Penguin

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• Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle.

  Marianne de Pierres

  Thinking, Mad, Wish

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• ...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.

  Gail Carriger

  Hair, Red, Gothic

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• I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

  Tony Dungy

  Voice, Way, Felt

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.40, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.

  Richard Yates

  Honesty, Sorry, Thinking

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• It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.

  Laini Taylor

  Touching, Way, Found

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.158, Hachette UK

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• The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Memories, Old Things, Sea

  H.P. Lovecraft (2012). “The Complete Fiction Collection vol III”, p.241, Lulu.com

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• The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  Donald Miller

  Monday, Couple, Mean

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

  Abraham Maslow

  Sick, Essentials, Way

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

  Kate Chopin

  Love, Sympathy, Dream

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.29, Kate Chopin

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• Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Wise, Stars

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.30, Penguin

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• As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

  Nalini Singh

  Example, Taste, Firsts

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.26, Penguin

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• I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dad, Men, Interesting

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Bloodfever”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Real, Love Is, Flames

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

  John Green

  Years, People, Decision

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• The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

  Donald Miller

  Selfish, Believe, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.

  Doris Lessing

  Home, Cat, Yellow

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