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“When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.”

Men Way Soul Body Turns Lost Sleep Existence Blood Century Illusion Overcoming Seeking Deeper Awake Streams Restless Awakened Better Ways Refined

Author:Flann O'Brien

“As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!”

Way Said Three Fire Four Heard Blood Fashion Cry Wind Office Department Seconds Extensions Rapids Emily Hallways Miranda

Book:The Devil Wears Prada

Source: The Devil Wears Prada

“I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.”

Way Real Spirit Names Sound Blood Leaving Real Life Fades Vague Erase Intrigued Fade Away Contemptuous

Book:The House at Riverton: A Novel

Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel

“It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.”

Way Kind Moments Faces Powerful Blood Wall Brown Bothered Bleeding Manson Powerful Words Words Of Hope

Author:Miriam Toews

“They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.”

Way Book Wanted Simple Blood Streets Building Broken Clothes Stones Filled Hungry Ministers Princess Terrified Refugee Peasants Wrists Barbarians Shackles

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.”

People Way Said Wanted Remember Forget Forever Blood Clean

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.”

People Way Firsts Heart Earth Saws Blood Sky Dangerous Keys Sorrow Ten Stones Bones Grass Gates Questioning Ashes Peril Sorrow Love

Author:Alice Hoffman

“All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.”

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.”

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

Ifs Way Feels Heart I Can Hands Eye Names Brain Break Fire Seeing Blood Feet Arms Goes On My Heart Beats Mouths Ears Hearing My Way Swear Seals Break Off

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.”

Ifs Way Trying Said Enough Whole Hate Left Born Half Blood Pure Let Me Pretending Wizards Keep Trying Traitor Whole Family Pals Hermione Muggles Death Eaters

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”

People Way Made Real Hard Faces Hurt Economy Blood Reputation

Book:Extras

Source: Extras

“Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.”

Knows Way Ideas Suffering Turns Hurt Blood Sky Like You Argument Crosses Angry Excuse Flesh Tendencies Bitter No Idea Shakes Midst Clue Fists Turn-on Accusation Flesh And Blood

Book:Sex God

Source: Sex God

“In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.”

Way Blood Taste Mouths Chocolate Hateful

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel