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Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“See this pebble?" "Yes." "Take it." Eragon did and stared at the unremarkable lump. It was dull black, smooth, and as large as the end of his thumb. There were countless stones like it on the trail. "This is your training." Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking or we'll never get anywhere.”

Way Said Ends Courses Black Talking Teaching Training Stones Confused Dull Smooth Trails Thumbs Lumps Pebbles Eragon

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.”

Source: Hush, Hush

“Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.”

Ifs Way Running Earth Voice Share Wind Stones Weight Bees Serenity Brooks Polished Unexplained Drowsy Wind Blowing Pollen

Author:Gladys Taber

“Sam picks the stone up and clenches his entire body in deep concentration. Nothing happens. " Oh come on," he says to the stone. " I promise to use it for the power of good. No girls' locker rooms, I swear.”

Use Body Happens Girl Rooms Promise Picks Stones Concentration Swear I Promise Lockers Locker Room

Author:Pittacus Lore

“He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.”

Ifs Giving Made Stories Hands Letting Go Mouths Stones Substance Knees Blanket Extending Pebbles

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

House Silence Doors Wall Mets Stones Lays Woods Hills Firm Bricks Larks

Book:The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.”

“Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Ifs Way Years Wells Mean Enough Suffering Turns Boys Minutes One Day Rain Stones Angry Mad Woods My Way Remembered Bites Worn Ponds

Author:Arthur Golden

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.”

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?”

Long Body Hands Beautiful Night Fall Water Fire Happened Cold Drink Taste Long Time Rain Stones Bones Waking Beautiful Things Whispering Ponds Deep Inside Dip

Book:New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.”

Writing Kind Book Sometimes Felt Chance Pleasure Psychology Judgment Stones Plant I Realized Vague Signals Microbes Small Pleasures Feeler

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”

Knows Mean Done Lasts Week Rocks Greatness Stones Sick Medicine Jail Lightning Thunder Bricks Injured Whales Alligators

Author:Muhammad Ali

“How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?”

Ifs Way Littles Stills Lost Waiting Sun Fire Mystery Wall Cold Tomorrow Stones Woods Storm Yesterday Weather Hills Beach Rising What If

Author:Robert Nathan

“We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.”

Ifs Made Sometimes Stones Size Dues Shoulders Shore Potatoes Cab Sean Flour Driftwood

Book:The Scorpio Races

Source: The Scorpio Races

“Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.”

Children Ends Common Steps Watches Break Stones Sick Sticks Bounds Cracks Jumping Rope Mama All Alone Playgrounds Clapping

Book:Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.”

Doe Ends Light Eye Water Walks Tree Flower Stones Silent Winter Sand Print Passages Tigers Veins Marshes

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.”

May Break Stones Sticks Bones Bullets Caliber Sticks And Stones

Author:Jim Butcher

“I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.”

Thinking Believe Made Moments Choices I Believe Realizing Born Chance Destiny Our Lives Fate Stones Ultimate Free Will Racing Our Destiny Exit Freeways

Author:Neal Shusterman

“I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.”

Stills Earth Mother Fall Memories Gone Cutting Mets Ocean Stones Died Lips Guides This Life Streams Cliffs Richness Chairman Mother Died

Author:Arthur Golden

“You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.”

“The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone”

Facts Grows Stones Seeds

Author:Tupac Shakur

“...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.”

World Character Stories Dream Imagination Animal Tree Huge Stones Clouds Unfolding Participants Abram

Book:The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

“There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.”

Ifs Whole Light Eye Faces Black Dark Heard Son Hair Daughter Stones Population Graves Settling Flames Brown Candle Graveyard Firefly Swarms Black Hair Dark Eyes

Book:The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.”

Mind Lost Water Loses Forget Effort Forever Strange Stones Angry Preserves Spite Lasting Persist Apologizing Monument Moss Spoken Word Moths

Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter --”

Fire Stones Snow Buttons Robots Pissed Off Elijah

Author:Warren Ellis

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”

Sometimes Remember Stones Unexpected Night Circus Unexpected Places

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“You were first-string running back last year. What happened?” – Coach “Stone’s mouth happened. It needed to be closed, and I was a little too obliging to shut it.” – Nick”

Years Firsts Littles Running Lasts Happened Needed Mouths Stones Coaches Strings Last Year Running Back

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.”

Hands Found Felt Stones Smooth Palms

Book:Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.”

World Song Water Rich Deserve Rivers Stones Bottom Familiar Bridges Glorious Emeralds Liesel

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big”

Men Bigs Humanity Stones Moved Terror Dumb

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

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