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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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George Orwell (Animal Farm)
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I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
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Matt Groening
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This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
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George Orwell (Animal Farm)
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If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.
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J. Rose Black (Losing My Breath)
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Callan stared at the door. Raw and razed and present. A crucial moment—when he wasn’t the one with his finger on the trigger.
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J. Rose Black (Losing My Breath)
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Every day is a battle. Still. She doesn’t need this…this mess. The nightmares. She doesn’t deserve what I’d put her through. And she probably wouldn’t stick around anyway. Who would?
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J. Rose Black (Losing My Breath)
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She made a face at him, and he could picture her, as a child princess—sticking her tongue out at a playmate in her princess castle.
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J. Rose Black (Losing My Breath)
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I can’t do more than this. Don’t ask me. If you ask, I’ll try and I’ll fail. You’ll end up hating me. And I’d rather die . . . than have you hate me. Or disappoint you. My own darkness, it still chips away at me.
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J. Rose Black (Losing My Breath)
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Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Marek guessed that Villiam could use his wealth to influence God's will. That was the way things worked, Marek thought. If you didn't have money, you had to be good.
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Ottessa Moshfegh (Lapvona)
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Was it all the children?" I ask him. "Is that what put the strain on your marriage?" He shakes his head no. "No, the kids are great. I'm sorry about that part. I'll genuinely miss my kids." "Did you disagree on the colour of that dress?" "What?" "Nothing, never mind!" ... "She doesn't like Nickelback.
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Freida McFadden
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She looks surprisingly real for a person I am hallucinating. I am sort of impressed with my brain right now. ... "You are a figment of my imagination," I clarify. "I fabricated you as a way to deal with my husband and his obsession.
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Freida McFadden (The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie)
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He even figured out that I like presents. He really is very intuitive about me.
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Freida McFadden (The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie)
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Alice, I had no idea. You don't look it at all, honestly! How far along are you? Seven months? Eight months?" I glare at her. "Six weeks".
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Freida McFadden (The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie)
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We feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty.
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Virginia Satir