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“We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.”

May Eye Faces Sin Cases Tree Movement Objects Strange Messages Window Everyday Tricks Branches Tree Branches Everyday Objects

Author:Anna Godbersen

“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”

Way Needs Government Desire Folks Tricks Intervention Desire To Live

Book:Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy

Source: Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy

“Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going." "I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?" Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-" It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.”

“Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!”

Giving Mind Chance Paper Tricks Papers

Author:Groucho Marx

“He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.”

Knows Long Hard Enough Bits Havens Blame Tricks Blame Me Manipulator Don't Blame Me

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.”

Thinking Want Years Heart I Can Waiting Hours Week Minutes Months My Heart Weak Breathe Tricks Collapse

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.”

Advantage Tricks Awkward Vague Inarticulate

Author:Jonathan Tropper

“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”

Thinking Persons I Can Sometimes Tricks Very Happy Happy Person

Author:David Levithan

“Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.”

Way Giving I Can Give Me Worthy Tricks Holes Statements Get Away Village Surprising Verses Jumping Circus Pennies Shack Orion Centaurs

Author:Eoin Colfer

“Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.”

Tricks Bent Crooked

Author:Jennifer Crusie

“If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.”

Ifs Art Economy Art Is Tricks

Author:Leo Burnett

“You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady friend. I think she'd had enough of my inventions by the end... I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.”

Thinking Knows Should Real Ends Enough Whole Wanted Earth Given Journey Effects Moon Illusion Should Have Tricks Invention Voyages Inventing Had Enough Inventing Things

Author:Mathias Malzieu

“Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.”

Kind Hours Saws Add Currents Speed Miles Tricks Boat Idiot Assumption

Book:Cryptonomicon

Source: Cryptonomicon

“When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.”

“She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said.”

May Said Soul Lying Sides Answers Love Is Knowing Foolish Tricks My Soul Your Soul Curse Considering Torment Plague Do You Love Me

Author:Anne Stuart

“I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!”

Teach Magic Fronts Fool Tricks Insult Uncles Umbrella Magic Tricks Hagrid Crackpots Uncle Vernon

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.”

Looks Littles Shows Law Order Stuff Streets Lessons Police Shame Tricks Counting Investigators Sesame Street Csi

Author:Steve Harvey

“Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.”

Giving Stories Emotion Safe Boring Guides Tricks Manipulative Boring Life

Book:A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.”

Men Important Dream Memories Events Strange Tricks Preserves Fog Trifles Hazy Important Events

Author:Richard Burton

“Hi, Tad!' she said. 'Hi, Jeff! Hey, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?' 'Uh, no,' I said. 'We were just...I mean, Tad was...uh, nope.' 'So what were you guys talking about?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's very complicated. We were discussing...umm...hats. You know, hats. Like, the head kind.' 'There's another kind?' Lindsey asked. 'Hey, Jeff?' Tad said. 'If your mom needs any evidence to prove that you're retarded, let me know. I'd be glad to record you talking to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick.”

Ifs Knows Needs Wells Kind Mean Said Guy Talking Records Mom Prove Evidence Let Me Complicated Glad Tricks Hey Hats Discussing Your Mom Retarded Interrupting

Book:After Ever After

Source: After Ever After

“Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.”

Fun Decision Intelligent Extraordinary Addiction Monsters Tricks Pet Pockets Crucial Alchemy Goldfish Life Decision

Book:Zero History

Source: Zero History

“Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.”

Thinking Way Real Light Faces Mother Father Parent Sound Doors Died Woods Tricks Boots Light Up Been In Love

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk”

People Knows Want Walks Known Missions Tricks Hospitals Pace

Book:Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

“It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.”

Dies Easy Tricks

Book:American Gods

Source: American Gods

“Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.”

People Ifs Humans Human Beings Special Skills Normal Tricks Subtle Learners

Book:The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Know How Cry Singing Sorry Tricks Do You Know Whistling

Book:Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.”

Ifs Sometimes Past Week Balance Tricks Invisible Continents Shelves Static Explosives Continental Breaking Apart

Book:The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”

Mind Play Body Your Body Tricks Trusted Placebo

Author:Ben Goldacre

“Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.”

Real Play Hands Reality Tasks Tricks Unreal Upper Hand

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.”

Mean Doe Sometimes Steps Laughing Fate Plans Written Happened Blood Fool Easier Comfort Blame Tricks Slips

Author:Nora Roberts

“No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.”

Bigs Deals Blood Tricks Big Deal

Author:Jeff Lindsay

“The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.”

People Mind Mean Art Half Teach Saws Nice Illusion Disappear Tricks Palms Substitution Too Nice Replication

Book:Sapphique

Source: Sapphique

“Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.”

Waiting Tricks Gaps Finding Happiness Those Who Wait Brisingr

Author:Christopher Paolini

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.”

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”

World Life Son Devil Tricks Convincing

Book:John Dies at the End

Source: John Dies at the End

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.”

“I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.”

Knows Stills Enough Past Happenings Tricks Passing Passings Brushes Convenience Unfolding Time Passing Ribbons Combs Handbags

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.”

“Weapons are allowed. Dirty tricks are expected. But try not to kill anybody!” Tantalus smiled at us like we were all naughty children. “Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s’mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!”

Trying Children Results Week Ready Weapons Killing Expected Punishment Tricks Dirty Harsh Naughty Chariots Campfire

Book:The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.”

Past Illusion Tricks Far Away Exit

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.' Now that would be a neat trick.”

Ifs Whole Would Be Cry Whole Life Tricks Idiot Collections Neat Lunacy

Author:Ilona Andrews

“How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun”

Thinking Angel Fruit Tricks Baskets Fruits Basket

Author:Gena Showalter

“The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.”

Lost Left Forget Goes On Tricks

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.”

Ifs Eye Tricks Contact Eye Contact

Author:Sarah Addison Allen

“The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes”

Heart Eye Tricks

Author:Alyson Noel

“If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.”

Ifs Writing Heart Character Stories Humanity Focus Magic Worst Horror Stronger Tricks Flash Parlor

Author:Don Roff

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”

Want Play Passion Memories Tricks Vanity Our Memories Pretence

Book:Selected Works of Joseph Conrad

Source: Selected Works of Joseph Conrad

“WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.”

Different Romance Perfect Tricks Different Things Worth It No One's Perfect

Author:Maureen Johnson

“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.”

Happens Suffering Trust Lifetime Betrayal Tricks Betray Betrayed Trust Others Not Trusting Betrayal Of Trust Betrayed Love Being Betrayed Friend Betrayal Love Betrayal Betraying Friends Love And Betrayal

Book:Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick

Source: Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick

“I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.”

Ifs Knows Want Mouths Intention Tricks Shakes Shrinks

Author:Ned Vizzini

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