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Thankfully he hadn’t used the word as a declaration. It was an endearment. One that rolled off his lips as naturally as my name and bounced in my stomach like a pinecone.
Contrast in connotation: She seems to be excited about the term of endearment the boy she likes has called her, but the use of comparing the feeling to a pine cone in her stomach contrast; this simile makes it sound painful–perhaps hinting at her uneasiness that she feels beneath the surface of this quickly developing relationship.
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”
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“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
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“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
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