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“Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.”

Thinking Wells Sometimes Facts Color Bird Caught Flames Frank Jewels Wrens

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”

Way Writing Firsts Moments Life Is Waiting Secret Worry Style Fit Paper Caught Instant Flood Desks Heartbeat Scrap Deliberation Doorstep Writing Things Down

Author:Walt Whitman

“He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.”

Might Felt Powerful Break Pieces Sea Dresses Fingers Glasses Wave Caught Shoulders Crush Fabric Threatened Softness Attics

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.”

Doe Seems Might Law Universe Courses Asks Challenges Answers Regret Caught Proof Foolish Treasure Endeavor Caught Up Overlooked

Author:Andy Andrews

“Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.”

Source: The Gypsy Crown: Chain of Charms 1

“Are you okay?" Daniel whispered, his voice soft, his lips so close to hers. "Yes." She could feel the beating of his wings. "You caught me." "I will always catch you when you fall.”

Feels Fall Voice Okay Wings Lips Caught

Book:The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection

Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.”

Ifs Men Feels Heart Turns Sides Realizing Born Lines Fire Silent Rounds Caught Philosopher Terror Boat Evening Mortals Necks Subtle Peril Whales Your Side

Book:Moby-Dick: World Classics

Source: Moby-Dick: World Classics

“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”

People Sometimes Easy Loses Caught Caught Up Easy To Get Losing Yourself Dreamland

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father." "Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules." "The first one is, catch him." "He's caught. Go on." "The second one is, feed him well." "With enough pie. What next?" "The third and fourth are-- keep your eye on him.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.”

Lying Wall Sitting Caught Sensations Bathroom Toilets Eavesdropping Bathroom Wall

Book:Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go.”

Ifs Knows Giving Doe Two Matter Facts Body Light Passion Strong Arms Needed Giving Up Pressure Caught Wounds This Day Matter Of Fact

Author:Alice Munro

“The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the parasol. There were bluish shadows around her eyes.”

Light Eye Faces Seeing Flower Hair Shadow Rain Mirrors Caught Tiny Pale Fabric Her Eyes Lit Rope Circus Skirts Tents Petals Framed Dizzy Eyelashes Slits Parasols

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.”

Bigs Poor Caught Fishes Bait Big Fish

Author:Maxim Gorky

“-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.”

Trying Firsts Wells Hands Causes Voice Cold Clean Caught Obvious Disaster Enthusiasm Caught Up Bonus

Author:Iain Banks

“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”

Belief Disease Caught Fallen

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?" "Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously want a slushie." I tried a tentative smile. I definitely liked him now. "I haven't had one in ages. Maybe the guys outside—the double blonds—would want one, too?" For some reason Leon found that utterly fricking hysterical. He snorted and chuckled all the way through Housewares to the Health and Beauty section, and even Benjamin unbent enough to grin.”

Way Want Wells Looks Reason Enough Would Be Age Guy Found Difficult Havens Mouths Caught Sections Hysterical Leon Health And Beauty

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“Don't worry about me," I finally said. "Really. I'm more worried about you." And even more worried about where Graves is. "Are you?" A fey smile lit his face, and I caught my breath. It was a shock to see him look so happy. "Well, then.”

Wells Looks Said Faces Worry Breaths Caught Graves Worried Shock Lit Fey

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.”

Way May Doe Home Happens Mistake Doubt Grace Arms Promise Blessing Fundamentals Caught Guides Gods Will Guidance No Doubt Sovereign Everlasting Covenant Whatever Happens Slipping

Book:Knowing God

Source: Knowing God

“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.”

Artist Air Mines Tests Caught Prophetic Canaries

Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage that follows: "So," said Silas. "Now there are only three of us." "And a pig," said Kandar [the mummy] "Why?" Asked Miss Lupescu, with a wolf-tongue, through wolf teeth. "Why the Pig?" "It's lucky," said Kandar. Miss Lupescu growled, unconvinced. "Did Haroun have a pig?" asked Kandar, simply.”

Has Beens Said Three Missing Lucky Mirrors Caught Tongue Teeth Dragons Passages Pigs Traps Dens Mummy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.”

Ifs Used Girl Everyday Caught Catching Fainting

Book:City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. "Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't-" Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.”

Should Mind Hands Might Brain Lows Mouths Caught Awful Hanging Out Caught Up Bosoms Maids Hallways Rebecca

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.”

Said Hot Wings Caught Sense Of Humor Caught Up Jace Faerie Downtown Nightclubs Pixies

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”

Believe Ends I Believe Caught Devices

Book:Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

“What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.”

Persons Sometimes Whole Beautiful Hurt Missing Hair Dresses Caught Details It Hurts Caught Up Hurt Me You Re Beautiful Last Sacrifice

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day — while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.”

People Ifs Stills Earth Tears Standing Asking Angry Tired Aging Caught Stillness Chasing Getting Older Here I Am Standing Still

Author:Alan Moore

“I loved you!” he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. “I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me!” The change in his features also caught me by surprise. His voice filled the room. So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian. He strode toward me, hand clasped over his chest. “I. Loved. You. And you used me the whole time.”

Wells Heart Whole Hands Might Used Voice Rooms Grief Saws My Heart Filled Surprise Caught Destroyed Features Chairs Chests Usual Ripped I Loved You

Author:Richelle Mead

“Knowing I wasn't going anywhere, I frantically searched for some way to help her. A dark figure caught my eye. "Christian!" I yelled. He'd been staring at Lissa's retreating figure but glanced up at the sound of his name. One of my escorts shushed me and took my arm. "Be quiet." I ignored her. "Go after her," I called to Christian. "Hurry." He just sat there, and I suppressed a groan. "Go, you idiot!" My guardians snapped at me to be quiet again, but something inside of Christian woke up. Springing up from his lounging position, he tore off in the direction Lissa had traveled.”

Way Helping Eye Christian Names Sound Dark Knowing Figures Position Arms Quiet Caught Idiot Staring Sat Traveled Ignored Guardian Lounging

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.”

Knows Said Hands Would Be Eye Voice Worst Position Arms Filled Raised Caught Familiar Do You Know Receiving Pigs Accused Slap Wrists Filthy Wenches

Author:Alexandra Bracken

“Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.”

Source: Downsiders

“It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.”

Way Littles Made Helping Wanted Night Fall Sides Hair Normal Ears Wings Edges Caught Smell Stuck Necks Selfless Desks Thumbs Weird Things Lucy Dizzy Normal Things

Author:Ann Brashares

“Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.”

Way Doe Said Enough Moments Happens Stars Grows Waiting Walks Growing Up Heard Feet Sky Ten Size Caught Woods Now And Then Awkward Caught Up Discouraging

Author:Norton Juster

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.”

Persons Long Doe Two Left Felt Simple Becoming Long Time Lonely Caught Uncomfortable Sat Acquaintance New Acquaintances She Left Me

Book:Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 1: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor

Source: Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 1: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor

“Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On a regular basis. And no one else." "Ow!" I exclaimed, trying to yank my fingers from Trent but finding them caught. Then I colored, realizing what I'd said. "Oh… sorry," I stammered, meaning it. "That was insensitive." Trent's frown turned into a sly smirk. "Bump uglies?" he said, eyes on the table behind me. "You are a font of gutter slang, Rachel. We must do this again.”

Want Trying Said I Can Eye Realizing Behinds Findings Bases Tables Fingers Sorry Caught Ugly Glad Royalty Bumps Insensitive Sly Gutters Slang Smirk Fonts

Author:Kim Harrison

“He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.”

Two Soul Might Spirit Order Equal Perfection Caught Educated Imperfect Triviality Bewilderment

Author:E. M. Forster

“Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.”

Thinking World Stills Book War Lost Forget Too Much Violence Fashion Dresses Meetings Caught Dreamer Scholar Wardrobe Forgetful

Book:The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn

“If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?”

Ifs Feels Kind Produce Evolution Morality Succeed Bills Strategy Clinton Males Sorry Caught Pool Genes Adultery Theft Being Sorry

Author:Robert J. Sawyer

“Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.”

World Body Moving Caught Circles Visible Fabric Mobile Cohesion

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.”

Should Trying Helping Cat Medicine Caught Warrior Fleas

Book:Warriors: Omen of the Stars #1: The Fourth Apprentice

Source: Warriors: Omen of the Stars #1: The Fourth Apprentice

“The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR”

Two Three Next Numbers Four England Caught Kenya Malaysia Number Three

Author:Pittacus Lore

“Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.”

Knows Caught Shoulders Wicked

Author:Ally Carter

“You're crying?" he said. "No, I- " I tore my gaze away. "Just dust. From the path. Simon's that way." I tried to pass him, but he stooped, trying to get a loom of my face. When I wouldn't let him, he caught my chin. I jerked back, flinching at his touch, heart thudding at it, too. I told myself Simon was wrong. I'd never be dumb enough to fall for Derek. But I had. With him so close, my stomach kept doing weird flips. It wasn't fear. It hadn't been fear for awhile. "You have been crying," he said, voice softer.”

Way Trying Heart Has Beens Said Enough Faces Fall Voice Path Cry Caught Dust Dumb Stomach Flip Chins

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.”

Thinking Should Ideas Enough Stories Havens Students University Caught Punishment

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!”

Stars Sky Mines Depth Caught Shed Twinkling This Is Me Twinkling Stars

Book:War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

“As she lifted the glittering strand of diamonds from the box, a small slip of paper fell out. She caught it as it wafted toward the floor. Four words in ancient script, an arrogantly slanted scrawl. Accept these, accept me. Well, she thought, blinking, that was certainly direct and to the point. -Adam's note to Gabrielle”

Wells Accepting Four Paper Direct Notes Ancient Scripts Caught Boxes Adam Slips Diamond Strands Accept Me

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“I don’t want to be like her, like Vivian. I don’t want to hurt anyone. Am I going to hurt people?” “No one can make you do that, child. You are caught between two worlds, much like my own Lend. You will want the fire, you will want to be filled. It is your nature. I hope you do not fall, but she is much stronger than you are.” She smiled at me, reaching out as though she would wipe away my tears. “Cling to what is good in your life. Be good to my son.”

People World Want Children Two Life Is Fall Hurt My Own Fire Tears Son Stronger Filled Caught Be Good Reaching My Son Reach Out Wipe Like Her Two Worlds Life Is Good

Author:Kiersten White

“Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Three Half Dog Tvs Blind Caught Stealing Fifteen Deaf Fifteen Years Robbery Old Dog Fifteen Years Old

Author:Elizabeth Chandler

“It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”

“A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.”

Beautiful House Hair Gold Caught Lit Radiance Mesh Galadriel

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion