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“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After ...more

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“It was deliciously pagan.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“The notes danced through the June air; Vivi could feel them dust her hair and shoulders. She could feel the notes enter her and settle deep into her bones.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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“I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try to get home without screwing it up like last time, dummy," or "Farewell, for I may never see you again, given the mortality that awaits us all like a crouching panther.”
― Rob Sheffield

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“There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

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