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Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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What are you doing?"
"Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly.
It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window.
"Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?"
"You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me.
I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.
From Austenland
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I do like the world quite a lot.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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You saw my leg?"
"How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.
From The Goose Girl
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Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.
From River Secrets
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He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.
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Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.
From The Goose Girl
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I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
From Princess Academy
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What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.
It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
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There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
From Princess Academy
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I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
From The Actor and the Housewife
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I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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What are you doing?"
"Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly.
It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window.
"Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?"
"You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me.
I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.
From Austenland
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I do like the world quite a lot.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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You saw my leg?"
"How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.
From The Goose Girl
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Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.
From River Secrets
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He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.
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Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.
From The Goose Girl
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I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
From Princess Academy
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What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.
It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
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There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
From Princess Academy
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I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
From The Actor and the Housewife
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I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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What are you doing?"
"Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly.
It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window.
"Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?"
"You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me.
I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.
From Austenland
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I do like the world quite a lot.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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You saw my leg?"
"How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.
From The Goose Girl
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Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.
From River Secrets
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He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.
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Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.
From The Goose Girl
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I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
From Princess Academy
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What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.
It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
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There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
From Princess Academy
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I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
From The Actor and the Housewife
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I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
From Book of a Thousand Days
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