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• Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning. “Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says. “Yeah, whatever,” says Zeke. They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.

  Veronica Roth

  Dirty, Eye, Laughing

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• As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must go in, it's nigh on ten of the clock.' He half-turned away from me, his jacket collar hiding his expression. Was he angry? Disappointed?" Jo looked intently and I said, "Hungry?" Jo ignored me, but as she passed by acting out walking away from Phil, she allowed her hand to slap against my head.

  Louise Rennison

  Walking Away, Expression, Hands

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• You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Jesus, Son

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• He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

  Rachel Joyce

  Mistake, Journey, Accepting

  "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - review" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2012.

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• We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

  Patti Smith

  Distance, Way, Separate Ways

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.213, A&C Black

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• So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

  Robert James Waller

  Thinking, Here I Am, Two

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.23, Random House

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• But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Walking Away

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.

  Ted Hughes

  Children, People, Walking Dead

  Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.

  Shel Silverstein

  Men, Marathon, Forget

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• I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

  Kate Chopin

  Sorry, Missing, Mind

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.278

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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• In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Eye, Oxygen

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• Only ideas won by walking have any value.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ideas, Values

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• They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Walking Away, Able, Walks

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• He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Glasses, Worry, Dining

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• He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a passerby, he was in a place where everything, not only the land, was open. People would feel free to talk, and he was free to listen. To carry a little of them as he went.

  Rachel Joyce

  Mistake, Journey, Land

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• There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

  Rumi

  Peace, Passion, Eye

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

  Robin Sloan

  Lonely, Book, Dark

  "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". Book by Robin Sloan, 2012.

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• I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Wall, Blue, Stronger

  "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

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• He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, People, Church

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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• One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older." She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.

  Gena Showalter

  Fall, Pride, Years

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Passion”, p.93, HQN Books

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• What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Years, Names, Woods

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• When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stand walking through this city knowing he wasn't in it. Like somehow, as long as he was out there somewhere, if I was ever really in trouble, I knew where I could go and while maybe he wouldn't do exactly what I wanted him to do, he'd keep me alive. He'd get me through whatever it was to live another day.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cities, Knowing, Long

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1836, Dell

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• To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Easter, Sunday, Light

  Pope Benedict XVI (1998). “Milestones: Memoirs, 1927-1977”, p.6, Ignatius Press

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