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I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."
Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed.
"Why don't you just tell me who wins?" Edward said wryly.
Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent.
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Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4))
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We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
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Melina Marchetta (On the Jellicoe Road)
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What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?β
βNo.β Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, the other held over it in a fist. βRock, paper, scissors. Two out of three.β
Ty rolled his eyes and held out his fist, apparently willing to play. Julian hit his palm three times, and Ty kept time with his fist in the air. But when Julian threw a paper, Ty reached into his jacket with his other hand and pulled his gun, aiming it at Julian.
βTy!β Zane said in exasperation from the front seat.
βGlock, paper, scissors. I win.β
βYou are an ass,β Julian muttered.
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Abigail Roux (Armed & Dangerous (Cut & Run, #5))
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The reason why a person lies is almost always more interesting than the lie itself
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Enjoy the stories of other people's lives, but don't forget to live your own.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Come here,β she says.
βNo, you come here.β
βI said it first.β
βRock paper scissors.β
βNo. Because youβll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then youβll win.β
Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.
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Melina Marchetta (The Piper's Son)
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I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.
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Sara Zarr (How to Save a Life)
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The only good thing about losing everything, is the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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words donβt come with gift receipts and you canβt take them back.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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If every story had a happy ending, then weβd have no reason to start again. Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart. Which we all do. Even the people who pretend they donβt.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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The best lessons are often the ones we donβt realise weβre being taught
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Books can be mirrors for whoever holds them & people dont always like what they see
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Ty slapped Owen on the arm. "Close your eyes, man."
"Why?"
"You got a tell."
"I have a tell at Rock, Paper, Scissors?" Ty and Nick both nodded. "And you tell me ten years later? You're both assholes!
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Abigail Roux (Touch & Geaux (Cut & Run, #7))
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Silence cannot be misquoted.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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But if thereβs one thing I have learned from life as well as fiction, itβs that nobody is ever just a hero or just a villain. We all have it in us to be both.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Life is like a game where pawns can become queens, but not everyone knows how to play. Some people stay pawns their whole lives because they never learned to make the right moves.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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The scariest haunted houses are always the ones in which you are the ghost
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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This is us. Our pose. The smush. Itβs even how we are in the ultrasound photo they took of us inside Mom and how I had us in the picture Fry ripped up yesterday. Unlike most everyone else on earth, from the very first cells of us, we were together, we came here together. This is why no one hardly notices that Jude does most of the talking for both of us, why we can only play piano with all four of our hands on the keyboard and not at all alone, why we can never do Rochambeau because not once in thirteen years have we chosen differently. Itβs always: two rocks, two papers, two scissors. When I donβt draw us like this, I draw us as half-people.
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Jandy Nelson (I'll Give You the Sun)
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All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality. My job just happens to be my favorite drug.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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I guess we'll try the old fashion way!" "Alright Kakarrot you're asking for it" "Rock, Paper!...ready! rock, paper, scissors, ha!" "Yea I did it!"
"That's not the fusion technique!
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Toei Animation
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Time can change relationships like the sea reshapes the sand.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Nostalgia is a dangerous drug, but I enjoy the sensation of happier memories flooding my mind.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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But then, isn't love like breathing? Isn't it instinct? Something we're born knowing how to do? Or is love like speaking French? If nobody teaches you, you'll never be fluent, and if you don't practice you forget how...
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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We are our parents echoes and sometimes they don't like what they hear
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Tiny violins always sound loudest to those playing them.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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I doubt he felt the same way, but feelings donβt have to be mutual to be real.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."
Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"
Alice: "I do. Excellent.
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Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4))
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I wish people were more like books. If you realise halfway through a novel that you arenβt enjoying it anymore, you can just stop and find something new to read. Same with films and TV dramas. There is no judgement, no guilt, nobody even needs to know unless you choose to tell them. But with people, you tend to have to see it through to the end, and sadly not everyone gets to live happily ever after.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! Itβs a rule from the heartbreak version of βrock, paper, scissors.
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Julie Klausner (I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated)
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She wonders about that a lot: why people only learn to live in the moment when the moment has passed.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Believing in someone is one of the greatest gifts you can give them, itβs free and the results can be priceless.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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atelophobia noun the fear of not doing something right or the fear of not being good enough. An extreme anxiety of failure to achieve perfection.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket.
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Nicole Riekhof (A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket)
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The woman wore her bitterness like a badge; the kind of person who writes one-star book reviews.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Four-legged creatures tend to make better companions than those with two, and dogs donβt hold grudges or know how to hate.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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but dreams can only come true if we dare to dream them in the first place.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Patience is the answer to so many of lifeβs questions.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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It made me wonder how many firsts a person can have before life only offers them seconds.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Sometimes I think its the fear of falling down that makes people trip up. We're not born afraid. When we're young, we dont hesitate to run, or climb or jump & we dont worry about getting hurt or fret about failure. Rejection & real life teach us to fear - but if you want something badly enough - you have to take the leap.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Affection is like playing the piano and you can forget how to do it without practice.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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He huffed a chuckle. "Nah, we had to do about sixteen rounds of rock paper scissors. Handled it like men, beautiful.
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Tate James (Timber (Hades, #4))
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I think itβs best to make all important life decisions with a game of rock paper scissors,
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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That would have been too obvious," Matt said. "You just said I never choose scissors so you had to know I would choose scissors so I couldn't choose scissors because you'd know it. Hence, the rock."
"Hence the paper covering your rock. You ask her."
"Well played my friend," Matt said. "Well played.
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Sarah Beth Durst (Drink, Slay, Love)
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I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds.
It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.
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Cory Doctorow (Little Brother (Little Brother, #1))
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Dreams are like dresses in a shop window; they look pretty, but sometimes donβt fit when you try them on. Some are too small, others are too big. Luckily, my mother taught me how to sew, and dreams can be adjusted to fit, just like dresses.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Rock, Paper, Scissors?β said Decker. βTo see who gets to stretch their legs first?β Pierce looked at him and laughed. βI didnβt lose my memory from todayβs trauma. I always knew you were cheating.β βItβs not cheating if Iβm better at it,β said Decker.
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Steven Konkoly (The Raid (Ryan Decker, #2))
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I was taught to be polite - you cant cross a bridge if you burn it.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Sometimes home is more of a memory than a place.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Marriages dont fail - people do.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Enjoy the stories of other peopleβs lives, but donβt forget to live your own.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Gossip is almost always jealousyβs love child.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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feelings donβt have to be mutual to be real.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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I want to know now,β I whine, not caring that I sound like a five-year-old throwing a tantrum.
βHow about this? Weβll Rock, Paper, Scissors for it.β
Yeah, weβre going to make great parents, all right.
βFine.β I crack my knuckles, which makes him snicker. βReady?β
βReady.β
We count in unison. On three, we reveal our hands. He did paper. I did rock.
βI win,β he says smugly.
βSorry, baby, but you lose.β
βPaper covers rock!β
I smirk. βRock weighs down the paper so it canβt fly away. It traps it.β
A loud sigh fills the room. βIβm not going to win on this, am I?β
βNope.β But he looks so cute right now that I offer a compromise. βHow about this? You can leave the room while the doctor tells me, and I swear I wonβt give it away. Iβll hide all my baby purchases in my closet so you canβt see what Iβm buying.β
βDeal
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Elle Kennedy (The Goal (Off-Campus, #4))
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There are residents in our lives, the ones who stay for years, and then there are the tourists just passing through. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference. We canβt, and donβt, and shouldnβt try to hold on to everyone that we meet, and Iβve met a lot of tourists in my life, people I should have kept at a safe distance. If you donβt let anyone get too close, they canβt hurt you.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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But I have realized recently that words are just words, a series of letters, arranged in a certain order, most likely in the language we were assigned at birth. People are careless with their words nowadays. They throw them away in a text or a tweet, they write them, pretend to read them, twist them, misquote them, lie with, without, and about them. They steal them, then they give them away. Worst of all, they forget them. Words are only a value if we remember how to feel what they mean.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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I try to Control-Alt-Delete the thought, as always, but the keys in my mind get stuck.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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My fingerprints are all over his heartbreak
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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I donβt know who Iβm supposed to be if I canβt be the me I dreamed I would be.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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spending more time together isnβt always the same as spending less time apart.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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People are a bit like books for me in that way, and I tend to be genuinely turned on by what's on the inside rather than just the flashy cover.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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the roads to our dreams are rarely direct
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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The sad truth about our present always punctuates my happy memories of our past with full stops.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Fear and imagination can lead the brightest of people down dark paths.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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At 5.45 a.m. the important scientists finished their coffee and played rock paper scissors to see who had to phone the government.
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Mitch Benn (Terra)
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Often I imagine that living is a game of rock-paper-scissors: fate beats hope, hope beats ignorance, and ignorance beats fate. Or, in a version that has preoccupied me: the fatalistic attracts the hopeful, the hopeful attracts the ignorant, and the ignorant, the fatalistic.
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Yiyun Li (The Book of Goose)
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As I look up at the night sky, it seems almost inconceivable to me that something so magical is always there. We're all too busy looking down to remember to look up at the stars. It makes me sad when I think about all the things I might have already missed out on in life, but I plan to change that.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Iβve gotten used to playing second fiddle in the orchestra of us,
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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But marriage changes people whether they like it or not. You canβt unbreak an egg when youβve already whisked it into an omelette.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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None of us know when we're checking out - life isnt that kind of hotel
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Marriage is either a winning lottery ticket or a straitjacket
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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In real life he was a collection of unfinished sentences
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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We weren't always the people we are now, but our memories of the past can make liars of us all. That's why I'm focusing on the future.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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If every story had a happy ending, then we'd have no reason to start again. Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Thatβs the problem with following in someone elseβs footsteps; if you leave a bigger mark than they did they tend to get upset.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Believing in someone is one of greatest gifts you can give them, itβs free and the results can be priceless
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Sometimes it is best to let people think you will follow them, until you are certain that you wonβt be lost on your own.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Rock-Paper-Scissors for it.β
βBut you always cheat,β Blake whined. βAnd then you just punch me and growl that βrock beats faceβ.
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Kyle Adams (A Gay Romance)
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We weave our lives out of threads of opportunity and stitches of chance,
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Robin read recently that bats give birth to their babies while hanging upside down. Then they have to catch their children before they fall too far, but that part is the same for all parents.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Iβve heard people describe marriage as two missing pieces of a puzzle coming together, and discovering that they are a perfect fit. But thatβs just wrong. People are different and thatβs a good thing. Two pieces of different puzzles cannot and will not fit together, unless one has been forced to bend or break or change to fit around the other.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Sometimes I think it is the fear of falling down that makes people trip up. We're not born afraid. When we're young, we don't hesitate to run, or climb, or jump and we don't worry about getting hurt or fret about failure. Rejection and real life teaches us to fear, but if you want something badly enough, you have to take the leap.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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It's always: two rocks, two papers, two scissors. When I don't draw us like this, I draw us as half-people.
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Jandy Nelson (I'll Give You the Sun)
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Word of the year:
monachopsis noun the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place. Unable to recognize your intended habitat, never feeling as though you are at home.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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<...> late is better than never. Sometimes the early bird eats too many worms and dies.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Sometimes a curse can be a blessing.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Some people say that marriage is like wine and gets better with age, but I guess it all depends on the grapes.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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The world can seem less frightening when you donβt have to face it alone.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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medicine. The minutes drag on. I tuck my slingshot away and play a few rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors with Tess. (I donβt know why, but sheβs crazy good at this game.)
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Marie Lu (Legend (Legend, #1))
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Secrets are only secrets for the people who don't know them yet. They can morph into lies when shared, and like caterpillars turning into butterflies, beautiful lies can fly far, far away.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Busy" has become a trigger word in our marriage. Adam wears his busyness like a badge. Like a Boy Scout. It is something he is proud of : a status symbol of his success. It makes him feel important
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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There's no easier pastime than bad-mouthing the church. Much like bad-mouthing Dostoyevsky: it's true, of course, all true, but it also misses the point. The church is a thing of wonder, Dostoyevsky is a thing of wonder, and the fact that we Russians are still hereβthat, too, is a thing of wonder.
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Maxim Osipov (Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics))
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Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephantβfist, mouseβpalm, and antβlittle finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephantβs trunk and paralyzed his brain.
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Colin Cotterill (The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6))
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I do know that the lies we tell ourselves are always the most dangerous. And I know that sometimes the thoughts we hide in the margins of our minds are the most honest, because they are ours alone, and we think nobody else will see them.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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People are careless with their words nowadays. they throw them away in a text or a tweet, they write them, pretend to read them, twist them, misquote them, lie with, without & about them. They steal them, then they give them away. Worst of all, they forget them. Words are only of value if we remember how to feel what they mean.
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Alice Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors)
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Ninja beats pirate. Pirate beats ghost.
Ghost beats zombie. Zombie beats most.
Werewolf beats vampire. Vamp beats Imp.
Imp beats fiend. Fiend beats wimp.
Wizard beats cyrborg. Cyborg surely beats troll.
Troll beats goblin. Goblin eats a hermitβs soul.
Hermit beats child. Child beats wagon.
Wagon beats moon snake. Moon snake beats dragon.
Dragon beats hydra. Hydra beats sailor.
Sailor beats teacher. Teacher beats tailor.
Tailor beats sun worm. Sun worm beats clown.
Clown beats robo-squid. Robo-squid beats town.
Town fights jackals. Town will win.
Town fights mummies. Town wonβt fight again.
Zookeeper beats hell hound. Hell hound beats giant.
Giant beats accountant. Accountant beats client.
Client beats frog. Frog beats himself.
Knight beats Big Foot. Big Foot beats elf.
Elf beats pixie. Pixie beats specter.
Specter beats sea hag. Sea hag beats Hector.
Hector beats serpent. Serpent beats rat.
Rat beats Grandma. Grandma beats cat.
Lava beats demon. Demon beats warlock.
Warlock beats dinosaur. Dino beats Spock.
Spock beats Lando. Lando beats Qui-Gon.
Qui-Gon beats Jar-Jar. Jar-Jar beats none.
Rock beats scissors. Scissors beat paper.
Paper beats insect. Insect beats vapor.
Wood Woman beats Tree Man. Tree Man beats the dark.
The dark kills spider-fish. Spider-fish beats shark.
You beat me. I beat a dentist.
The dentist beats the barber. The barber is menaced.
These are the rules, and never forget.
Now hand over your money and place your bet.
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Dan Bergstein
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We breathe and breathe and breathe together. She takes my hand and I think how otters sleep floating on their backs in water, holding hands exactly like this, so they don't drift apart in the night.
After a while, she picks up her fist. I do the same.
Rock/Rock
Scissors/Scissors
Rock/Rock
Paper/Paper
Scissors/Scissors
"Yes!" she cries. "We still got it, yes we do!
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Jandy Nelson
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I raise my hands, still clutching the grenade. They could try to take it from me, try to disarm me... hell, they could even go ahead and shoot me in the face... but theyβd have four seconds to save themselves before we all got blown to pieces.
They take a few steps back, but nobody lowers their weapons, like guns are going to help them in this situation. Rock, paper, scissors, motherfuckers... you better take your pick and hope like hell you win.
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J.M. Darhower (Grievous (Scarlet Scars, #2))
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Yes,but only if we employ careful strategy,as in rock-paper-scissors," I said.
"My 720 totally beats Nick falling down, like paper covers rock. Unless the rock is a boy,in which case the boy always wins."
"Hayden-"Liz began.
"I am getting sick of your attitude, Hayden," Chloe talked over Liz. "We've been up here all day with you.All we have left is to get you off this jump. Every time you try, you have some excuse: wind in your face, bug in your ear, panties up your butt-"
"I was not making that up," I broke in. "Imagine trying a trick with umcomfortable underwear." I squirmed, rocking back and forth on my board to make a point.
"Or you make some stupid joke!" Chloe hollered at me.Her voice echoed against the rocky slope of the mountain overhead.i stealthily looked around in my goggles to see if any boarders I knew had heard,but it was getting late,and the slopes were empty except for us.
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Jennifer Echols (The Ex Games)