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Sometimes when we were hiding behind the breakers with the crowd, he'd hold me so tight, I'd think he's not just holding me, he's holding onto me, like I'm stopping him from falling off. I'd see him looking at me and his eyes were so full of... I dunno. Like he was about to cry. And, it's stupid, I know, but I think maybe he's hurting because he loves me and I don't love him, and this great lump used to come up into my throat and I'd hold him tight and try and squeeze him as tight as I could... Melvin Burgess
Terry Prachett quote: "Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out."
Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out. Terry Prachett
Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound. Kurt Vonnegut
Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once? Bertrand Russell
How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements...How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles. Tom Wolfe
However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot. Neil Gaiman
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me. Mahatma Gandhi
I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the... Christopher Hitchens
But there may be a period, while the wings are just beginning to grow, when it cannot do so: and at that stage lumps on the shoulders- no one could tell by looking at them that they are going to be wings... C. S. Lewis
Chloe Moretz quote: "My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm..."
My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman. Chloe Moretz
It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it. Christopher Meloni
My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out. Thomas Goodwin
Robert Frost quote: "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a..."
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. John Dyer

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