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Noah had wandered down the aisle, but now he gleefully returned with a snow globe. He stood behind Ronan until he pushed off the shelf to admire the atrocity.
"Glitter," whispered Noah reverentially, giving it a shake.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, “I know why you’re mad.”
Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. “Tell me then, prophet.”
Noah said, “It’s not my job to tell other people’s secrets.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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It’s always fish with you,' Blue said, but she laughed as they tickled round her throat and hands. Gansey glanced at her and away, reaching for another leaf to press into service. Joy gleamed between both of them; how purely and simply Blue and Gansey loved the magic of this place.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah.
"Noah took a personal day."
"I lost..." Noah struggled for words. "There wasn't air. It went away. The - the line!"
"The ley line?" Gansey asked.
Noah nodded once, a sloppy thing that was sort of a shrug at the same time. "There was nothing ... left for me." Releasing Ronan, he shook out his hands.
"You're welcome, man," Ronan snarled. He still couldn't feel his toes.
"Thanks. I didn't mean to ... you were there. Oh, the glitter."
"Yes," Ronan replied crossly. "The glitter.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great story-tellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.
What the commodifiers of fantasy count on and exploit is the insuperable imagination of the reader, child or adult, which gives even these dead things life- of a sort, for a while.
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Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5))
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He wasn’t certain if it was extremely cute or appallingly ugly, and it bothered him that it managed to be both.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1))
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Where do we begin?”
“At the beginning.
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Tracy Deonn (Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1))
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Its back was to him, showing broad shoulders armored in bark and stone, black as night, and a thick mane cascading down its spine to a short deer-tail.
For a moment all he could do was stare at the tail and think, Nothing on a Great Spirit should be that cute.
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H. Anthe Davis (The Light of Kerrindryr (The War of Memory Cycle #1))
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Where the veil broke, you could see silvery clouds on which tall angels might stand. Not cute little Christmas angels, but high, stern angels in white robes, whose faces were sad and serious from being near God all day and hearing His decisions about the world.
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Cynthia Voigt (Homecoming (Tillerman Cycle, #1))
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Please, please don’t touch it, it will keep you captive for about two days if you do. There’s little creatures running around in the city that look like furry eggs with tails called Fuzzies. They’re perfectly harmless, cute little fluffballs that get into everything. And I do mean everything. Safeguard your snacks carefully.
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Honor Raconteur (Warlords Reigning (Advent Mage Cycle #9))
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When she’s mad at me, she’s terrifying, but I think she’s cute when she’s mad and beating up bad priests. You don’t think so? No? Fine, it’s just me, then.” Becca gave me that patented ‘Adults are strange’ look and ignored me,
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Honor Raconteur (Lost Mage (Advent Mage Cycle, #6))
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Most people aren’t happy. They sing songs like they are. Make up cute little stories. Post pics of the rare times when life wasn’t dreadful. Most people are stomaching this whole affair called life. Are these people complainers? Probably. Most are. But they’re also just blokes who’re too afraid to take a risk. So they live lives in a redundant cycle of complacent apathy. Then these people wallow around day after day in their unhappiness. The more you do that, the more you lose sight of the chances you could take to make things better.
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Sarah Noffke (Revived (The Lucidites, #3))
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DO YOU HAVE OR HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS . . . — PART A — ■ A feeling you’re constantly racing from one task to the next? ■ Feeling wired yet tired? ■ A struggle calming down before bedtime, or a second wind that keeps you up late? ■ Difficulty falling asleep or disrupted sleep? ■ A feeling of anxiety or nervousness—can’t stop worrying about things beyond your control? ■ A quickness to feel anger or rage—frequent screaming or yelling? ■ Memory lapses or feeling distracted, especially under duress? ■ Sugar cravings (you need “a little something” after each meal, usually of the chocolate variety)? ■ Increased abdominal circumference, greater than 35 inches (the dreaded abdominal fat, or muffin top—not bloating)? ■ Skin conditions such as eczema or thin skin (sometimes physiologically and psychologically)? ■ Bone loss (perhaps your doctor uses scarier terms, such as osteopenia or osteoporosis)? ■ High blood pressure or rapid heartbeat unrelated to those cute red shoes in the store window? ■ High blood sugar (maybe your clinician has mentioned the words prediabetes or even diabetes or insulin resistance)? Shakiness between meals, also known as blood sugar instability? ■ Indigestion, ulcers, or GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease)? ■ More difficulty recovering from physical injury than in the past? ■ Unexplained pink to purple stretch marks on your belly or back? ■ Irregular menstrual cycles? ■ Decreased fertility?
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Sara Gottfried (The Hormone Cure)
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So Satan decided that dogs are cute, cats are pretty and cloning is the way forward. However, it didn’t know that at the end of times, this whole cycle will stop for God is the greatest ~ God, The Holly Book
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God, The Holly Book
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The cycled selves and darkness and wonder... all of these are powers. What we are told is shameful or cute are actually fucking powers. We just have to stop using them to hurt ourselves. Point your barrel from your temple to the sky.
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Betty Gilpin (All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns)
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It’s amazing to look back now, see in the photos just how cute she was, and remember how incredibly difficult it was. We shared wonderful, life-altering joy and she pushed buttons in me that I didn’t even realize I had.
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Hunter Clarke-Fields (Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids)
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...You always have her, but if you need an ear, I got two, just for you, alright? We aren’t alone anymore.” - Seth Varkees
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Daniel Varona (The Cycle of Eden: Two Sides of Corruption)
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[Peggy Gallagher] was also appearing once a month for two hours on WGN Radio [...] During one summer show, a caller asked, 'Do you think there is a seasonal cycle for Beanie Babies?'
'It’s not different than any other kind of investment—the stock market or the commodities market,' was Gallagher’s reply. Then she explained that she used to be a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. 'There are peaks and valleys. It’s an investment for people. There’s nobody as big as the market. The Hunt [brothers] tried to do it with the silver market. There is nobody bigger than the market. The prices have stabilized a bit right now, but now they’re starting to get more active. So it’s just like any other type of investment'.
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Zac Bissonnette (The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute)
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There was, of course, no way that he would force the raven downstairs. It looked bite-sized and improbable. He wasn’t certain if it was extremely cute or appallingly ugly, and it bothered him that it managed to be both.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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In the modern world, however, you can take care of any need or desire almost instantly. Stressed out? No problem. Cupcakes are right around the corner. Bored? Check out the latest posts on Instagram. Anxious? Watch cute puppy videos on YouTube. “Need” a new pair of shoes (as in see someone with a cute pair of shoes that you have to have)? Just hop on Amazon
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Judson Brewer (Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind)
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There was something annoyingly impressive about him, an impression that he was very tall, although he was no taller than most boys. “My socially inhibited friend Adam thinks you’re cute, but he’s unwilling to make a move. Over there. Not the smudgy one. Not the sulky one.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1))
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Someone explain to me why the military, Danyal in particular, is so enamored with Becca?” “She’s the first military commander they’ve had that shows consistent worry for their wellbeing?” “And she’s cute.” “And she’s cute,” Nolan agreed, chuckling. “Men of all ages are weak to cuteness.
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Honor Raconteur (Warlords Rising (Advent Mage Cycle, #7))
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Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great storytellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.
”
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Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5))
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Rule One is simple. It states, ‘Danger lurks within cute and cuddly things.
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Chris Kennedy (Asbaran Solutions (The Revelations Cycle #2))