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Lex malla, lex nulla,” said Julian with a regretful wave of his hand. It was the Blackthorn family motto: A bad law is no law.
“I wonder what other family mottoes are,” Emma mused. “Do you know any?”
“The Lightwood family motto is ‘We mean well.’ ”
“Very funny.”
Julian looked over at her. “No, really, it actually is.”
“Seriously? So what’s the Herondale family motto? ‘Chiseled but angsty’?”
He shrugged. ‘If you don’t know what your last name is, it’s probably Herondale’?”
Emma burst out laughing. “What about Carstairs?” she asked, tapping Cortana. “ ‘We have a sword’? ‘Blunt instruments are for losers’?”
“Morgenstern,” offered Julian. “ ‘When in doubt, start a war’?
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Cassandra Clare (Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices, #2))
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Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
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Bryan Davis (Liberator (Dragons of Starlight, #4))
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Do you remember our first kiss? I do. Not a day goes by I don’t think of the feel of that bicuspid against my tongue. It had such a distinctive feel, neither cuspid nor molar…but I’m not sure it knew that – that was what endeared it to me so. It was like the blunted tusk of a wild boar.
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Benson Bruno (A Story that Talks About Talking is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures can Attest to the Fact that No . . .)
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If he just wanted sex from her, everyone knew the fastest approach to that end was just to enquire bluntly if she was interested. She was either willing to kill some time, or she was too busy killing.
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Jane Cousins (What's Up, Buttercup? (Vexatious Valkyries, #1))
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I shook my head. "Not Interested" I said.
he straightened up. "Not interested in what?"
In you." I couldn't be more blunt.
Excuse me, miss, but I was going to ask if you would like to sign up for karaoke.
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Karen E. Olson (The Missing Ink (Tattoo Shop Mystery, #1))
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Why did Nicky call me the Baby Killer?" Kiara sniffled.
"Because she is a bitch," Leontes said.
Jaeger gave him a chastising look. "She's dead."
"Dying did not make her any less of a bitch," Leontes replied.
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A. Kirk (Midnight Poison (The Paranormal Poisons Saga, #1))
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But you would think, wouldn't you, that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt? - Sir Nicholas de Mimsy
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2))
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What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymoogy: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and polysyllabic Greco-Roman abstraction. The clash of these elements, as competitive as Italian dialects is invigorating, richly entertaining, and often funny, as it is to Shaskespeare, who gets tremendous effects out of their interplay. The dazzling multiplicity of sounds and word choices in English makes it brilliantly suited to be a language of poetry..
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Camille Paglia (Break, Blow, Burn)
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The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.
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Edna Ferber
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She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle, and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Her voice has the force of a blunt object, and she once told me she “doesn’t mind confrontation” in a tone that made me wonder if maybe we were already in one.
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Emily Henry (Funny Story)
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When I met Oodgeroo, I met my mother: not just Dossie’s poise, eyes and Lindt-like skin, but the funny-bugger with a steak knife, buried, a serrated intensity that unsettled me—a boy of elocution lessons and an easier ride, 25 a man of lighter brown travelling, whose tab of overt intolerance came in at insults and one lost girlfriend. I wasn’t there when indignity did its daily round—rarely blunt, rather, a pointed 30 needling that cut near the core, left wounds that broke their stitches every morning I did know that the sharp steel about Oodgeroo was also about my mother. On campus—
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Anita Heiss (Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature)
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You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of them, not the ten thousand who write those bullshit ghetto books with the bright covers, have two choices: they can do precious or they can do pretentious. When you do neither, nobody knows what to do with you. So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race. You know, a Proustian meditation, all watery and fuzzy, that at the end just leaves you feeling watery and fuzzy."
"Or just find a white writer. White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn't threatening.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah)
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Blunt, funny, and kind. She was the best friend anyone could dream of.
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Manuela Rouget (Aerial (Flying High Duet, #1))
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What a vibe! Do you wanna walk with me? I’m headed this way.”
“No,” said Andrei. “But thank you.”
David shifted his arms and laughed. He did not expect rejection. David considered himself friendly and a young man of great energy and there could be no possible reason why anybody should deny his invitation.
“Oh, why not?”
“David...” Andrei started on an effortless admission. The comet knew exactly how he felt and did not measure his blow. It was fair this way, so he locked his eyes kindly on David and shared: “I do not want to walk with you. There’s nothing wrong with that. We don’t need to be friends. And this is okay.”
“Oh. Did I...say something bad earlier?”
“Mate, it’s just who you are. And who I am. I don’t want to pretend that it’s pleasant to be with you.”
“Dude, that really hurts me that you said that, Andrei.”
“What can we do, honestly, David? Lie instead? That’s how it is. It can’t be changed. It’s nothing on you—just the both of us combined. Not every person we meet is right for us. If we treat everyone like friends, nothing is earned, you know what I mean?”
“Alright, dude. Whatever. That’s totally your choice, so all good. But that literally makes no sense, so.”
Andrei looked down the road, which he owed, and not David, and so withdrew.
“Then let me make no sense. Cheers. Good luck with everything.
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Kristian Ventura (A Happy Ghost)
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What a vibe! Do you wanna walk with me? I’m headed this way.”
“No,” said Andrei. “But thank you.”
David shifted his arms and laughed. He did not expect rejection. David considered himself friendly and a young man of great energy and there could be no possible reason why anybody should deny his invitation.
“Oh, why not?”
“David...” Andrei started on an effortless admission. The comet knew exactly how he felt and did not measure his blow. It was fair this way, so he locked his eyes kindly on David and shared: “I do not want to walk with you. There’s nothing wrong with that. We don’t need to be friends. And this is okay.”
“Oh. Did I...say something bad earlier?”
“Mate, it’s just who you are. And who I am. I don’t want to pretend that it’s pleasant to be with you.”
“Dude, that really hurts me that you said that, Andrei.”
“What can we do, honestly, David? Lie instead? That’s how it is. It can’t be changed. It’s nothing on you—just the both of us combined Not every person we meet is right for us. If we treat everyone like friends, nothing is earned, you know what I mean?”
“Alright, dude. Whatever. That’s totally your choice, so all good. But that literally makes no sense, so.”
Andrei looked down the road, which he owed, and not David, and so withdrew.
“Then let me make no sense. Cheers. Good luck with everything.
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Kristian Ventura (A Happy Ghost)
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At first Sarah Walker had been amused, for she was interested in people and had a sharp eye for anything funny or unusual, but after a bit her sense of humor had become blunted by exhaustion. If Sarah had known the journey was going to be so awful she would have hesitated before accepting the invitation to lecture at this meeting, but she had not known (from Silverstream to Wandlebury did not look far on the map). It was only when John came home and she asked him to look out her trains that she discovered what she had let herself in for.
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D.E. Stevenson (The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss Buncle #3))
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He raised an eyebrow at me. 'You plan to use that?'
'Why does everyone think I'm going to stab them when I pick up anything that's not blunt?'
'Well,' Kieran replied blandly, 'you do have a habit of doing exactly that.'
I started to argue but quickly realised that, unfortunately, he had a point. 'Only when it's deserved.' I placed the dagger on the small wooden table. 'And it's not my fault that some of you deserve to be stabbed. Repeatedly.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash, #2))
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Kennedy, he gushed, was “graceful, gay, funny, witty, teasing and teasable, forgiving, hungry, incapable of being corny, restless, interesting, interested, exuberant, blunt, profane, and loving.
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David Talbot (Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years)
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It was one of those speeches — the ones that use lots of words to say nothing.
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H.C. Roberts (Harp and the Lyre: Exchange)
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Where was the romance in sense?
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H.C. Roberts (Harp and the Lyre: Exchange)