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“There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.”

Feels Looks Littles Doe Hands Moving Sides Doors Prepared Hunger Tricks Bread Pockets Cracks Stomach Pants Uncertain Wipe Neat Escaping Sean

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” .”

Sometimes Light Stars Heard Expression Illusion Sight Complexes Tricks Flames Suspects Circus Illumination Entirety Lanterns

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

Years Kind May Said Stills Seems Lasts Dies Grows Born Grief Written Tree Spread Rings Tricks Relax Grain Last Year Leafs Castles Bud Like Something Born Again Thickness Thresh

Book:Poesía reunida

Source: Poesía reunida

“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”

Knows Giving Writing Trying Heart Book Sometimes Lying Letters Accounts Tricks Mail Cheater Passwords

Author:Junot Diaz

“One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.”

Thinking World Interest One Thing Warm Tricks Hope For The Future

Author:Ned Vizzini

“L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.”

Thinking Hours Tricks Weather Vacation Fourteen Vortex

Author:Julian Casablancas

“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla”

Want Real Life Is Succeed Tricks Shantaram

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.”

Thinking Used Fall Walks Doors Minutes Pages Tiny Tricks Holes Cousin Triggers Dictionary Binding Trinity My Cousin Trinkets

Author:Janet Frame

“Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.”

Sometimes Memories Tricks

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine”

Running Life Is Lying Mines Promise Tricks Stealing Hiding Deceiving Cheat Hiding Place

Book:Legend

Source: Legend

“Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby. "Can it do any tricks yet?" "I'm still working on it. Want to hold her?" "God, no," Fletcher said laughing. "I'd drop it." "It's not an it, it's my baby sister. Go on, hold her. You won't make a mess of it, i swear. Only an idiot could drop a baby." "You always say I am an idiot." "But you're a special kind of idiot. Here." She passed Alice into his arms, and he stood there, rigid, a look of intense concentration on his face.”

Want Looks Kind Said Stills Faces Laughing Special Baby Arms Goes On Tricks Intense Mess Idiot Concentration Swear My Baby Baby Sister

Author:Derek Landy

“Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.”

Ifs Men Way Said Lost Differences Known Special Tricks Bedroom Dwarfs Brag Dwarves Getting Lost

Author:Gerald Morris

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

Inspirational Motivational Happiness Causes Business Attitude Effects Amount Misery Positivity Tricks Miserable Self Determination Motivational Business Don Juan Happy Birthday Happy Girl Positive Business

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.”

Mean Night Next Silence Creatures Standards Tricks Immortal Frozen Turkeys Missiles Blink Anvils Creatures Of The Night

Book:Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files

Source: Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files

“Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, especially since it's my birthday.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Seems Happens Audience Tricks Spots Dramatic Happy Endings My Birthday

Author:Matthew Quick

“Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.”

Looks Littles Said Teach Dresses Tricks Like Me Monkeys Cunning Jackets

Book:What Really Happened in Peru

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.”

Want Belief Simple Tricks

Book:Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

Source: Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

“In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.”

People Eye Fashion Cat Tricks Paris

Book:The Runaway Queen

Source: The Runaway Queen

“It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.”

Writing Persons Hard Novel Tricks

Author:Zadie Smith

“And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.”

Feels Littles Joy Sadness Tricks Supposed To Be Packages Joy And Sadness

Author:Kristin Hannah

“You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!”

Giving Teach Dog Tricks Toys Old Dog New Toys

Author:Si Robertson

“Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.”

Needs Feels Long Sometimes Hands Realizing Knowing Okay Tricks Upper Hand

Book:Identical

Source: Identical

“The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.”

People Knows Writing Able Turns Know How Tricks

Author:Dick Cavett

“Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. ‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.”

“Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.”

Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”

People Sadness Longing Disappointment Tricks Pockets Baggage

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.”

World Long School Turns Survival Tests Endure Tricks Endless Burning Odds Survived Calamity Tribulation Slim Furnaces

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.”

Knows Sometimes Moments Raises Yeah Tricks Eyebrows Holding On Sometimes In Life Mimicking

Author:Veronica Roth

“I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.”

World Way Years Persons Play Mother Grief Known Gone Angry Complicated Tricks Grieving Fractions

Author:Veronica Roth

“The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.”

Thinking Caught Following Tricks

Author:Daniel Handler

“Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.”

Men Time Race He Man Tricks

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Bigs Beautiful Life Is Stuff Simple Inspiring Business Failing Tricks Copies

Author:Tom Peters

“Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.”

Want Inspirational Tricks Dwelling Discouragement

Author:Guy Finley

“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.”

Matter Loneliness Acceptance Birth Lonely Tricks Frightened Being Alone Announcements

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.”

People Love Marriage Tricks Funny Marriage Positive Marriage

Author:Warren Buffett

“The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.”

Ideas Stories Business Findings Tricks Convince

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.”

Death Forget Forever Cutting Dancing Clever Tricks Grim Reaper Grim Reaper

Author:Danny Elfman

“It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.”

Play Funny Player Football Baseball Tricks Baseball Player Pastime Baseball Games Funny Baseball Inspirational Baseball Playing Baseball Motivational Baseball Baseball Life Baseball And Life Mlb Greatest Baseball Baseball Managers

Author:Yogi Berra

“It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.”

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.”

Knows Feels Feelings Doors Emotional Ego Tricks Checks Guidance Guts Do You Know Graduation Gps

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.”

Giving Children Parent Tricks Again And Again

Author:Jackie Chan

“The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers are. The love which is attached to the ego is a conspiracy and a trick to possess the other. It is a conspiracy - that is why nobody suffocates so many people as those who talk of love. This situation is created because of the 'love' which comes from the ego - there can never be any relation between love and the ego.”

People Form Situation Lovers Ego Relation Tricks Jealousy Jealous Conspiracy Your Jealous

Author:Rajneesh

“Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet The same heart beats in every human breast!”

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”

Knows Needs Writing Littles Art Ends Desire Fiction Tricks Crafts

Book:Trouble Is My Business: A Novel

Source: Trouble Is My Business: A Novel

“The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.”

“Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.”

Truth Honesty Trump Tricks Telling The Truth

Author:Mark Twain

“Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.”

Worry Ready Fine Tricks Nerves Butterfly Formation Monarch Butterfly I Get Butterflies

Author:Steve Bull

“Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.”

“Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.”

Way Want Mean Children Real Parent Learning Method Rewards Technique Tricks Emphasis Raising Children

Author:Mamie Van Doren

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