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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.
“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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“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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“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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