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• I really wish you hadn't worn that sweater,'he muttered into her ear. 'It's good practice for you,' she replied,her lips moving against his skin. 'Tomorrow,fishnets.' Against her side,warm and familiar,she felt him laugh.

  Cassandra Clare

  Moving, Practice, Sweaters

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• ...his gaze met hers. It was crazy. Dressed down in worn blue jeans and a black shirt, he was the most beautiful man she’d ever seen. And the moment was sort of perfect. Even with the deer head staring over his shoulder like a total creeper.

  J. Lynn

  Beautiful, Crazy, Men

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• It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Memories, Long

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.469, Hamilton Books

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• A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Beautiful, Book, Journey

  Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.226, Macmillan

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• I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Real, Believe

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• It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12

  Dan Wells

  Squirrels, Talking, Lunch

  Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• ...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

  Stendhal

  Mind, Genius, Ruts

  Stendhal (1969). “Red and black: a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism”

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• What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

  Carolyn Meyer

  Our Love, Faded, Happened

  Carolyn Meyer (2002). “Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am worn to a raveling.

  Beatrix Potter

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• HOUSE RULES [at the Praetor Lupus Headquarters] No shape-shifting in the hallways. No howling. No silver. Clothing must be worn at all times. ALL TIMES. No fighting. No biting. Mark all your food before you put it in the communal refrigerator.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, House, Shapes

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• We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

  George W. Bush

  Generations, Uniforms, Causes

  Fort Bragg Speech, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• All-devouring time, envious age,
  Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
  Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

  Ovid

  Time, Age, Degrees

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• Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

  Patrick Grant

  Hate, Integrity, Years

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• Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

  Trent Reznor

  Life, Tired, Done

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• When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Shoes, Body

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• Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.

  Koushun Takami

  Running, Uncles, Men

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• Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

  Jacob Braude

  Modern Life, Use, Antiques

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• Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

  Wilkie Collins

  Beautiful, Men, Ignorant

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• For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Littles, Impossible, Cappuccino

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• The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.

  Kobe Bryant

  Worn It, Shoes, Performances

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• ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Men, Tailors

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.14, 谷月社

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• As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.

  Steig Larsson

  Tattoo, Girl, Zero

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• Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. "Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak.

  Lisi Harrison

  Fun, Eye, Uggs

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• And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Eye, Madness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.926, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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