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“Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.”

Quote by Nora Roberts

Book:Dance Upon the Air

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Dance Upon the Air

In this fantasy novel, a young protagonist discovers an extraordinary ability to dance with the air itself. The story follows their journey as they navigate a world filled with magic and wonder, using their unique talent to overcome challenges and uncover secrets. more

Author

An American best-selling author known for her romance novels. Since publishing her first novel in 1981, Nora Roberts has written over 200 books, which have been beloved by readers worldwide. more

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“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.”

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Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.”

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Book:(The Great Gatsby)

Source: (The Great Gatsby)

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

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Book:F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

“Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.”

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Author:Robert Browning

“When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“We all look. The lucky find.”

Book:Heart of the Sea

Source: Heart of the Sea

“How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”

Source: The Power and the Glory

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

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Book:The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.”

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Book:The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.”

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Book:Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition