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"Grace, if you have used an iron within the last six months, I will eat that fork,' Ms. Chancellor says.'Which one?' I try to tease. 'You've got a lot of forks to choose from.''From which to choose, Grace. Do not end your sentences in prepositions, dear.''Of course, I totally see what you're getting at. I mean, at what you're getting."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back.' 'You ran away, Katarina.' 'And now I'm back.' 'You're still running."
Identity
"Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing."
Hope
"You look disappointed to see me, Zach,' Macey teased. 'Don't you like my jacket?"
Humor
"I didn't know there were this many math guys,' Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse.Kat cleared her throat. 'And women,' he added. 'Math women."
Society
"Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side."
Life
"Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie."
Deception
"Nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies)."
Reality
"There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.Hit.Panic.Flail.Freeze."
Youth
"Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well.'-Uncle Charles."
Warning
"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."
Morality
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