A morning walk meant work undone, and suffering, suffering, suffering. Keep the habit, help the habit; lay out the coffee and poetry; keep the silence; smile when he walked (a)   out of his office to the bathroom. Taking nothing personally."— Andrew Sean Greer (Less)

"I thought I'd lie on the floor and (a)   in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me."

"It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably."

— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))

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"Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, (a)   , or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care."

— Austin Kleon (Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative)

"After years of self- (a)   behavior, I’ve never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there’s nothing special about me."

— Brynna Gabrielson (Starkissed)

"Alec muttered a (a)   into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole."

— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))

The Senshi arrow flashed downward, heading directly for Shigeru. Will flicked his bow at it, caught it and deflected it from its course. The arrowhead screeched on the hard, rocky ground and the arrow (a)   away. Even Halt took a second to be impressed."

— John Flanagan (The Emperor of Nihon-Ja (Ranger's Apprentice, #10))

"He had imagined Scotland as being a soft place, all gentle heathery hills, but here on the north coast everything seemed sharp and jutting, even the grey clouds that (a)   across the pale blue sky. It was as if the bones of the world showed through."

— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)