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My father half closed his eyes, as if he were searching for something in the air - looks, silences, or perhaps my mother - to corroborate what he had just said.(The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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There is nothing more to be learned here.--Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"Buddy likes full skirts and waists."(The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons)
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"Rate you are foutu"WOLF HALL
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As soon as she was finished Pierrot said, " I want to be the count. I want to be a bad person."-Atonement
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"Yeah, right," says the man, blowing smoke out, and they both laugh.Perfect Day by Imogen Parker
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"My sister was not in a very bad temper when we presented ourselves in the kitchen, and Joe was encouraged by that unusual circumstance to tell her about the bright shilling."Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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The possibility of escape was slim, and if he could get away, what then?(The Eyre Affair-Jasper Fforde)
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The first few times they slept together, he used to take her pulse if he woke in the middle of the night, just to check that she was still alive.Perfect Day by Imogen Parker
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There was a potted plant there now,Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
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Only when he had walked through the hallway, turned right, and shut the doors of his sanctuary behind him did he sigh and wince and gingerly remove his mutinous boots.A Beautiful Blue Death
Charles Finch
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He gave her a tiny hand-sewn book, its pages opening to reveal the painted folds of a vagina, entitled Your Little Book, and a blue child-sized guitar.(Paint it Black-Janet Fitch)
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Ponieważ tak się sprawy przedstawiały, przyznałem się (było to w nocy z 6 na 7 lutego 1949), że uprawiałem szpiegostwo. (Czerwona księga. Stalin i Żydzi by Arno Lustiger)
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"Волът беше добитък, скот, воловете получаваха слама, а людете - само черен хляб, та трябваше да крадат, за да имат нещо повече."Translation:
"The ox was livestock, animal, oxes received straw, people - only brown bread so they had to steal in order to have something more."
(The Iron Candlestick - D.Talev)
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"I need a Valium."(Dangerous Angels-Francesca Lia Block)
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"The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily."(Peter Pan, James Barrie)
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One day Max came to pick me up for lunch after my lesson and noted her engraved card on the letter box.(Between Lives: An Artist and Her World, Dorothea Tanning)
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"I wore a jacket and a collared shirt, spoke politely, and was sincere in my promise to respect their point of view." 
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"Somebody's coming," she announced, and went on, her voice filled with surprise: "Coming here, it looks like!"(Garden in the Wind by Gabrielle Roy)
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drainage follows this slope."Concise Atlas of the World" ISBN9781405328012
;) the rule said closest book.
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As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.(The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf)
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Harry had never met a vampire, but he had seen pictures of them in his Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, and Black, with his waxy skin, looked just like one.(Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling)
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She was almost near him, since he had been standing in the front of the room when she was singing.(Bel Canto, Ann Patchett)
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Women were more liable to hysteria than men because "the woman is more often under the necessity of endeavoring to conceal her feelings."(The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter)
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"Do you even realize how much is wrong with that sentence?"I Never Fancied Him Anyway by Claudia Carroll
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"Lucy did not look at the view either."A Room With a View by E.M. Forster.
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Err, as my predecessor hasn't written the page/ sentence for the next person, here it goes :Page 11, sentence 5.
"Nothing bad could happen to Justin Case because he didn't exist." ("Just in case" by Meg Rosoff)p. 22, sentence 11
"Four buttons, five, and the little red dress slides from shoulder to hip, falls to the floor and lands at my feet like a kiss. " ("Before I die" by Jenny Dowham).page 29, sentence 2.
"For Liesl's part, she often wondered what Rudy's answer might have been had she pushed him."The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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"She shook her head violently from side to side, as if to clear it of cobwebs." "A woman of substance" by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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"When Winesburg, Ohio appeared in 1919 it was intensely influential on writers who either had lost their heart or had not yet found their way."The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, ed. Ann Charters
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"Hours and hours later, Harry woke quite suddenly in the pitch blackness and gave a small yelp of pain : his arm now felt full of large splinters.""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets " by J.K. Rowling
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"It answers to the name of Henry, but you can call it Library Boy."The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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"I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS," my dad had told me a thousand times. But how else are you supposed to find what you're looking for?)."Looking for Alaska by John Green
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"Emma thought they were as clean and as beautiful and as pure as vast and silent snowscapes sparking under hard, brilliant sun." A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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"They try to find the light for themselves; they try looking for someone in the sacristy."The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy.
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"Where you ordered, your worship."The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin
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"She - I should start calling her Hanna, just as I started calling her Hanna back then - she certainly didn't nourish herself on promises, but was rooted in the here and now.""The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
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"It had been two days earlier, a Thursday.""Founcault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco.
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"A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking.""Before I die" by Jenny Downham
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"With all the exhaustion of revelation, Samad collapsed onto the front steps, sighed, and sat with his hands on his knees, his face turned up toward the heat."White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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"A lonely person goes out in the street to mix with the crowd; to look at people's faces, to look for something real; only to find indifference, to feel even more lonely.""Thinking in English" by Leon Leszek Szkutnik
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