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What do you know of poetry?” Ambrose said without bothering to turn around. “I know a limping verse when I hear it,” I said. “But this isn’t even limping. A limp has rhythm. This is more like someone falling down a set of stairs. Uneven stairs. With a midden at the bottom.” “It is a sprung rhythm,” he said, his voice stiff and offended. “I wouldn’t expect you to understand.” “Sprung?” I burst out with an incredulous laugh. “I understand that if I saw a horse with a leg this badly ‘sprung,’ I’d kill it out of mercy, then burn its poor corpse for fear the local dogs might gnaw on it and die. ↗


— Patrick Rothfuss


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The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going. ↗


— Emily Giffin


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Donny recovered herself. “Dude, that was the seventh sign of the apocalypse. I’m so not going to class on the last day of the world. ↗


— Gwen Hayes


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All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers. ↗


— George R.R. Martin


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People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal. ↗


— Lauren Barnholdt


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Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. ↗


— Scott Westerfeld


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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


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Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps. ↗


— Janet Evanovich


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Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome. ↗


— Randy Pausch


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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. ↗


— Suzanne Collins


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