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• My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hermano, tíos, padre

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• Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girls figure- a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

  Rick Riordan

  Chica, Correr, Estrellas

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• In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

  Rachel Caine

  Fear, Believe, Love You

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires”, p.84, Penguin

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• It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

  Robertson Davies

  World, Way, Exile

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Talking, Hearing, Nature Beauty

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2319, Delphi Classics

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• I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Men, Years

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• Llamarlo un simple enamoramiento de colegiala era como decir que un Rolls-Royce era un vehículo con cuatro ruedas, algo así como un carro de heno. No se reía salvajemente ni se sonrojaba cuando lo veía, ni marcaba su nombre con tiza en los árboles ni lo escribía en las paredes del Puente de los Besos. Simplemente vivía con su rostro en el corazón todo el tiempo, una especie de dolor dulce e hiriente. Habría muerto por él.

  Stephen King

  Crush, Sweet, Wall

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• But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared. Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth. Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Kissing, Hands

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• And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Giving Up, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1371, Simon and Schuster

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• Creo que te debo otra explicación, Harry -dijo Dumbledore vacilante. "Tal vez te preguntes por qué nunca te elegí prefecto. Debo confesar... que más bien pensé... que ya tenías suficientes responsabilidades con las que seguir". Harry levantó la vista hacia él y vio una lágrima resbalando por el rostro de Dumbledore hacia su larga barba plateada.

  J. K. Rowling

  Responsibility, Long, Tears

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• When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?

  Janet Fitch

  Eye, Dark, Boys

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• In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.

  Nicole Krauss

  Opposites, Shadow, Trying

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

  Graham Greene

  Beautiful, Children, Home

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

  Janet Evanovich

  Years, Missing, Letters

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.25, Macmillan

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• I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Midnight, Hips

  George Carlin (1998). "Brain Droppings", Hyperion

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• Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Luck, Spiders

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• Vagamente, como cuando estás estudiando una lengua extranjera y lees una página que al principio no entiendes, hasta que una palabra o una frase te dan una pista; y de repente una sospecha, por así decirlo, del sentido de los destellos a través de tu atribulado ingenio, vagamente ella obtuvo una idea del funcionamiento de la mente de Walter. Era como un paisaje oscuro y ominoso visto por un relámpago y en un momento oculto de nuevo por la noche. Se estremeció ante lo que vio.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Oscuridad, Noche, Dar

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• It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.

  Gregory Maguire

  Heart, Air, Glasses

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• She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• Bruno abrió los ojos asombrado por lo que veía. En su imaginación había imaginado que todas las cabañas estaban llenas de familias felices, algunas de las cuales se sentaban al atardecer en mecedoras y contaban historias sobre cómo las cosas eran mucho mejor cuando ellos eran niños y tenían hoy en día. Pensó que todos los chicos y chicas que vivían allí estarían en diferentes grupos, jugando al tenis o al fútbol, saltando y dibujando cuadrados para la rayuela en el suelo. Resultó que todo lo que él pensaba que podía haber allí, no lo había. -El niño con el pijama de rayas

  John Boyne

  Niña, Fútbol, Niños

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• Se volvió hacia Jace. "¿Tienes que ser tan...?", empezó, pero se detuvo al verle la cara. Parecía despojado, extrañamente vulnerable. "¿Desagradable?", terminó él para ella. "Sólo los días en que mi madre adoptiva me echa de casa con instrucciones de no volver a oscurecer su puerta. Normalmente tengo muy buen carácter. Pruébame cualquier día que no acabe en y.

  Cassandra Clare

  Madre, Puertas, Casa

  Cassandra Clare (2010). "Cassandra Clare: Serie El instrumento mortal (3 libros): Ciudad de Huesos; Ciudad de Cenizas; Ciudad de Cristal", p.461, Simon and Schuster

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• I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

  Nick Burd

  Thinking, Drifting Off, Somewhere Else

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• Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

  Kanye West

  People, Sometimes, Wonder

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• X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.

  John Keats

  Kings, Warrior, Lakes

  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)

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• The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject Allegra to the sentence. But Mimi was a different matter. Mimi walked out of the church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Blood, Law, Knowing

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