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• Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

  Katie MacAlister

  Running, Blood, Orange

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• What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?” The earl looked daggers. “I am certain he would be extremely helpful in a fight. He could ruthlessly flatter all your attackers into abject submission.

  Gail Carriger

  Fighting, Moon, Would Be

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• The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?

  Dennis Lehane

  Pain, Heart, Sleep

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• Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?

  Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

  Country, Law, Practice

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• You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something bad had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I can handle the real thing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Real, Angel, Fighting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?

  Cassandra Clare

  Ifs

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• When one door closes, find another." Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?" "Then you try the window." "And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked. "Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.

  C.C. Hunter

  Doors, Trying, Window

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.49, St. Martin's Griffin

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• And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are still dragging their tired old butts on stage? That would depress me way too much.

  Jay Asher

  Depressing, War, Tired

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I miss You? He answered simply, "Joyce, don't worry; if you miss Me, I will find you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Worry, Missing, Scared

  Joyce Meyer (2016). “How to Hear From God: Learn to Know His Voice and Make Right Decisions”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  People, Heaven, Good Work

  "Asleep in the Lord". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.

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• Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else. "I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?" "You'd think of something." "No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning." "Before breakfast?" "Yes. All right Mission Control?" "All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero.

  Hilary McKay

  Morning, Wall, Stupid

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• But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

  Holly Black

  Angel, Black And White, Evil

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• So what if nobody came? I’ll have all the ice cream and tea, And I’ll laugh with myself, And I’ll dance with myself, And I’ll sing, “Happy Birthday to me!

  Shel Silverstein

  Ice, Laughing, Tea

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• What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

  Stephen King

  Baseball, War, Kids

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.

  J. K. Rowling

  Noses, Wave, Wands

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• That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?

  Tammara Webber

  Love, Way, Needs

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.166, Tammara Webber

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• What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?

  Haruki Murakami

  Important, Forgotten, Ifs

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.14, Vintage

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• GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?

  Cressida Cowell

  Eye, Dragons, Teeth

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• What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Ifs, Loses

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• I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.

  Kami Garcia

  Hurt, Dark, Waiting

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• What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

  Lois Lowry

  Mates, Ifs

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Break Through, Trying, Truth Is

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• I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one, I get one.” “No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor,” Dad said. “What if we’re failing a course?” asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. “If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Daughter, Jobs, Dad

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• Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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• The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Sick

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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