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• BLACKBERRY. Also know as "Crackberry" for it's addictive qualities. It is the modern girl's weapon. It allow her to bid on ebay while walking down the street, map out her shopping route for maximum productivity, and sneak out of work and still get her messages as she peruses the sales racks.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Ebay, Shopping

  Nina Garcia (2009). “The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Flower, School, Boys

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• However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Men, Individuality

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• Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Love Is, World Love, Dangerous

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• The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to cause injuries. Vietnam, nuclear weapons, police out of control are intentional forms of violence. The violence from the Right is aimed directly at people and the violence from the Left is aimed at institutions and symbols.

  George Carlin

  Real, People, Police

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Kings, War

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• It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

  John Flanagan

  Would Be, Armor, Half

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• You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

  Nora Roberts

  Fashion, Accessories, Pearls

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.120, Penguin

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• It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Soul, Victory

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• Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?

  William Goldman

  Mean, Men, Rocks

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.109, A&C Black

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• "What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?" Finnick asks.
  "No," I say.
  "No," Finnick repeats. "Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He eyes Peeta for a moment. "Except maybe Peeta."

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Eye, Past

  "Catching Fire". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2009.

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• Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Hate, Moving

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• The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Friday, School

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.117, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone canny fox outwit the hunter often enough to know that it matters little how many horses and men you have. All the wealth and weapons in the world will not catch the fox that refuses to be caught.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Horse, Men, Hunters

  Stephen R. Lawhead (2011). “King Raven: 3-in-1 of Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine’s even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I’m thinking they’re not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don’t think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  School, Men, Thinking

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• Look, bud. I’m trained. Ticked off. And I have a loaded weapon. You should take particular note of the loaded weapon part when annoying me. (Terri)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bud, Looks, Annoying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2011). “Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.

  Nalini Singh

  Tools, Twisted, Said

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Hostage to Pleasure”, p.114, Penguin

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• A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Roots, Why Not, Defeat

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.658, Penguin

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• Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Relationship, Girl, Hurt

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Bones”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brain, Songbirds, Mockingbird

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Fear, Doe, Useless

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

  Francine Rivers

  Letting Go, Redeeming Love, Don't Let Go

  Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.292, Lion Fiction

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• A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Weakness, Needs, Tools

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• Just out of curiosity, how many weapons are in that thing? (Kiara) Enough to make me happy. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Curiosity, Enough, Make Me Happy

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• So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lethal Weapon, Wit

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