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"I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure."
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"He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face."
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"Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. Why so hostile, love?You whacked me on the head with a ball!You deserved it."
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"I caught his hand. What do you want me to do?Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. Tomorrow, I need you to die."
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"My Lady, turn away; do not look into the wagon, it is too frightening for a lady to view."
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"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
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"Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities."
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"You can burn brighter than they can, if you have too."
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"There are two types of men, Karolina. The ones who can admire the greatness of the little flower. Or the ones who try to control it."
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"Realization hit his face like a bomb. His hand trembled on my cheek, and he looked down to the ground, no longer able to hold my gaze."
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"A star becomes a sun, under the pressure of darkness."
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"Josh gathered his sense of injustice and faced Rodan Man-to-man, or rather, elk-to-elk, no, Netah-to-Netah."
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"I’m going to tell you something once and then whether you die is strictly up to you, Westley said, lying pleasantly on the bed. What I’m going to tell you is this: drop your sword, and if you do, then I will leave with this baggage here—he glanced at Buttercup—and you will be tied up but not fatally, and will be free to go about your business. And if you choose to fight, well, then, we will not both leave alive. You are only alive now because you said 'to the pain.' I want that phrase explained. My pleasure. To the pain means this: if we duel and you win, death for me. If we duel and I win, life for you. But life on my terms. The first thing you lose will be your feet. Below the ankle. You will have stumps available to use within six months. Then your hands, at the wrists. They heal somewhat quicker. Five months is a fair average. Next your nose. No smell of dawn for you. Followed by your tongue. Deeply cut away. Not even a stump left. And then your left eye—And then my right eye, and then my ears, and shall we get on with it? the Prince said. Wrong! Westley’s voice rang across the room. Your ears you keep, so that every shriek of every child shall be yours to cherish—every babe that weeps in fear at your approach, every woman that cries 'Dear God, what is that thing' will reverberate forever with your perfect ears. That is what 'to the pain' means. It means that I leave you in anguish, in humiliation, in freakish misery until you can stand it no more; so there you have it, pig, there you know, you miserable vomitous mass, and I say this now, and live or die, it’s up to you: Drop your sword!The sword crashed to the floor."
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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]"
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"You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain."
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"He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars."
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"Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction."
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"I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!"
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"Ano snorted in a very unladylike and elkish way."
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"Vane grabbed me. Du Lac, let’s chat. Chat. British-speak for Stand still while I yell at you."
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