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“You sound worked up. Really worked up. No, that's not it. You sound agitated...flustered...aroused." I could feel her eyes widen. "He kissed you, didn't he?" No answer. "He did! I knew it! I've seen the way he looks at you. I knew this was coming. I saw it from a mile away." I didn't want to think about it. "What was it like?" Vee pressed. "A peach kiss? A plum kiss? Or an al-fal-fa kiss?" "What?" "Was it a peck, did mouths part, or was there tongue? Never mind. You don't have to answer that. Patch isn't the kind of guy to deal with preliminaries. There was tongue involved. Guaranteed.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Mind Looks Kind Eye Guy Sound Answers Deals Saws Involved Kissing Mouths Tongue Miles Als Her Eyes Patches Peaches Miles Away Plums

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.”

States Home Next Wide Miles Welcome Idiot Canada You Choose Next Time Geography Frank Zhang

Author:Rick Riordan

“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.”

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Years Persons Long Names Walks Teach Teacher Quiet Travel Hundred Mirrors Who You Are Medicine Brave Glasses Miles Bitter About Yourself Great Teacher

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.”

“The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.”

“Every mile is two in winter”

Life Two Walking Winter Miles February

Book:The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.”

Night Minutes Lucky Conversation Speed Miles Settling So Lucky Stuttering

Author:Daniel Handler

“And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.”

Wells Might Sun Thousand Hundred Standing Miles Patches Pavement Thousand Miles Miles Apart

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.”

Ifs Ideas Realizing Hours Late Miles Fifty Too Late Halfway Bad Ideas Snacks Son Of Neptune

Author:Rick Riordan

“Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.”

“A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.”

Two States Hours Source Kissing Authority Hundred Fingers Speed Miles Flight Thrown Departure Arrivals Ambiguous Fart Velocity

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.”

Feels Long Made Two Use Mother Night Father Felt Sleep Millions Arms Safe Long Time Died Miles Settling Contrast Pillow Starks Peeta Miles Away Immediacy Father Died My Father Died

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

Persons Stills Shows Names Speak Miles Nine Insane Remove Vow

Author:Jodi Picoult

“A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.”

Ifs Doe Faces Cry Miles Height Breasts Convenient

Book:Young Miles

Source: Young Miles

“Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.”

Want Long Young Turns Grows Millions Car Miles Be Young Road Trip

Author:Pseudonymous Bosch

“I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.”

Want Heart Body Running Hate Three Sleep Brain Morning Darkness Couple Promise Bed Miracle I Hate Miles Awake Heart Of Darkness Miles To Go

Book:Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!”

Feels Running Mad Miles

Book:Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

Source: Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

“Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?”

Knows Asks Hours Answers Views Asking Rounds Point Of View Miles Make Sense Squares Yellow

Author:N. T. Wright

“That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it was only one mile. I had to rest for hours and eat chocolate to revive myself.”

Running Hours Half Impossible Minutes Ten Died Miles Chocolate Revive Treadmills

Book:The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle

“I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.”

Firsts Running Miles Nine Ran Florida Marathon

Author:Kim Alexis

“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”

Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

“We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.”

Knows Stills Dream Thousand Miles Our Dreams Thousand Miles Miles Apart

Book:The Big Crunch

Source: The Big Crunch

“I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.”

Ifs Feels Two Ends Attention Focus Alive Miles Invisible Pay Attention Nerves Anticipation Thread Shrinking Babbling

Author:Jojo Moyes

“Sugar," Tara said in a voice that was pure Pissed-Off South. "You need to go far, far away." A few weeks ago, he'd have taken that to mean she didn't want to see his face within a six-hundred-mile radius. Now he knew the truth. He distracted her. He could live with that. "Came to see if I can help." "I think I know how to make burgers," she said smoothly. "But bless your heart." In other words, f*** off and die.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Heart Mean Said I Can Helping Faces Dies Voice Know How Taken Week Pure Six Hundred South Miles Bless Sugar Far Away Distracted Burgers Pissed Off Radius

Author:Jill Shalvis

“You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.”

Miles Closest Miles Away Closest Friends

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.”

Source: The Offshore Pirate: Short Story

“Last night we told you that none of the angels remember where we landed when we fell," Daniel said. "Yeah, about that... How's it possible?" Shelby said. "You'd think that kind of thing would leave an impression on the old memorizer." Cam's face reddened. "You try falling for nine days through multiple dimensions and trillions of miles, landing on your face, breaking your wings, rolling around concussed for who knows how long, wandering the desert for decades looking for any clue as to who or what or where you are - then talk to me about the old memorizer.”

“Two thousand miles, Rachel,” he said tightly, and I guessed that no, it didn’t violate the rules of whatever he was doing out here, because he sure wasn’t out here keeping the coven from attacking me. “I have eaten nothing but slop for two days and used facilities I wouldn’t let my dogs urinate in. And what about that couple in the RV outside Texas? I’ll never get that memory out of my head.” - Trent to Rachel”

Said Two Used Memories Dog Couple Thousand Miles Texas My Dog Attacking Facility Two Days Thousand Miles Rvs

Author:Kim Harrison

“I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.”

Knows Ocean Hundred Miles Where You Are Buried Blindfolded

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

Men Way Humor Funny Walks Music Empathy Criticism Shoes Miles Criticize Miles Away

Author:Steve Martin

“Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.”

Knows Doe Dies Grief Cry Weapons Rage Miles These Days Plugs Bewilderment

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.”

Decision Keys Lessons Lists Miles Tactical Seizures

Book:Young Miles

Source: Young Miles

“My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.”

Heart Made Sides Space Race Sky My Heart Thousand Wide Miles Openness Sheer Vastness Thousand Miles

Book:The Woman in Black

Source: The Woman in Black

“a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles”

Men World Feels Soul Dream Earth Night Silence Known Sea Blind Miles Flight Infinity Doomed Avenues Splendor Radiance Velvet Gleam Crumbling Connotation Frivolity Amorous Lowliness

Author:e. e. cummings

“The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.”

Men Years Body Earth Found Angel Miles Hiding Sixty Gabriel

Book:Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.”

People Ifs Problem Past Courses Walks Pay Serious Built England Structure Phones British Miles Telephones Tanks Posh Mailboxes

Author:Neal Stephenson

“If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.”

Source: Jesus for President

“When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.”

Ifs Inspirational Motivational Challenges Entrepreneur Miles Extras Weekend Cheese Businessman Status Quo Your Best Friend Extra Mile

Author:Steve Jobs

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

Men Today Peace Goal Sleep Walks Forget Morning Five Thousand Twenties Miles Every Morning Twenty Five Thousand Miles

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom - so deep that not even light could touch it. And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling. Like stars.”

Light Stars Black Water Dark Clear Impossible Ocean Blue Depth Bottom Tiny Miles Enormous Sand Grain Lit Colony Sparkling Grains Of Sand Twinkling Clear Water Dark Blue

Author:Fuyumi Ono

“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”

“Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .”

Miles Entertaining Panic Elbows Quinn

Book:Miles Errant

Source: Miles Errant

“I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an hour. “No you dooonnn’t!” Fang’s voice spiraled away into nothingness, far above me. Inside my head, almost drowned out by the roar of wind rushing by my ears, I heard the Voice make a tsking sound. You guys are crazy about each other, it said.”

Said Two Guy Hate Sound Voice Hours Heard Crazy Wind Hundred Ears I Hate Wings Miles Nothingness Hate You I Hate You Rushing Fangs Diving

Author:James Patterson

“What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I forbid you.” It was Colin’s first attempt at forbidding anyone to do anything, and it worked about as well as he’d expected it to. Which was to say, not at all.”

Firsts Wells Mean I Can Five Hundred Expected Miles

Author:Tessa Dare

“Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Said Sometimes Problem Asks Names Bits Common Principles Needed Prejudice Miles Common Sense Ask Me

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.”

Shows Night Energy Sleep Five Talent Surprise Tiny Miles This Life Spinning Brightness Radius Unable To Sleep

Author:Jojo Moyes

“Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.”

World Way Two Different Home Sides Thousand Miles Different Ways Twelve Continents Thousand Miles

Book:The Thorn Birds

Source: The Thorn Birds

“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”

Men Kind Rocks Miles Kinds Of Love

Author:Cinda Williams Chima

“Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.”

Wells Done Jobs Late Harder Rewards Miles Too Late Well Done Job Well Done

Book:A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

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