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(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair. Charlaine Harris
My last girlfriend was Greek,” said the Iceman. “The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves. Shit like that. Neil Gaiman
On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter. Yukio Mishima
Submit to me."So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought. Virginia Woolf
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice? Douglas Adams
Neil Gaiman quote: "When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death."
When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death. Neil Gaiman
Dante Alighieri quote: "In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is..."
In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him. Dante Alighieri
Stephen Crane quote: "Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the..."
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments. Stephen Crane
Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business. Aristophanes
In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918) Eugene V. Debs
Jodi Picoult quote: "the arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the..."
...the arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the pillow on the bed - Em had said it smelled of him. Jodi Picoult
Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now no pedestrians, surrounded by these dumb, and seemingly dead houses, which throbbed with no human motion, wrapped in the deepening shadows of the twilight, which was beginning to fall, in the midst of this obscurity and silence, through which they felt the advance of something inexpressibly tragic and terrifying, isolated, armed, determined,... Victor Hugo
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble,... Charles Dickens
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion. Janet Frame
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race. Umberto Eco

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