01
“An ugly man, with a face sharp like a weasel and a habit of running a flickering tongue over his lips before he speaks. But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.”
Madeleine Miller
author
The Song of Achilles
book
ugly
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man
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face
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sharpness
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habits
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running
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flickering
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tongues
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lips
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speaking
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eyes
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afraid
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being lucky
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killing
concepts
02
“The words, ‘I love you’ become nothing but noise. But that’s why we kiss. To say with our lips what we couldn’t before.”
Iain Thomas
author
I Wrote This for You
book
kissing
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lips
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loving deeply
concepts
03
“Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don’t move your lips. Don’t make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.What a wonderfully weird thing, huh?”
Bo Burnham
author
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
book
magic
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reading
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silence
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lips
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sounds
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listening
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weird
concepts
04
“I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.”
Rudy Francisco
author
swear
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lips
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touching
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tasting
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years
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life
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loving
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relationships
concepts
05
“His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
Douglas Adams
author
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
book
Ford Prefect
character
theories
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understand humans
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lips
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talking too much
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thinking
concepts
06
“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding”
Three Initiates
author
The Kybalion / A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
book
lips
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wisdom
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understanding
concepts
07
″‘The enchantment of the first bite,’ she said. ‘It can only be undone by the touch of a salted tear on the parted lips of the spell-bound.‘”
Tom McNeal
author
Far Far Away
book
Ginger Boultinghouse
character
enchanted
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undone
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tears
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lips
concepts
08
“The word no, so short, so easy to say, a child’s sound, a noise more than a word, a short exhalation of air: all he had to do was part his lips, and the word would come out, and—and what?”
Hanya Yanagihara
author
A Little Life
book
easy
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noises
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air
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lips
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words
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language
concepts
09
“I have no use for divine patience -My lips are now burning and everywhere.I am running from every corner of this earth and skyWanting to kiss you.”
Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez
author
Hafiz On Love
book
divine patience
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lips
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burning
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love
ᐧ
romance
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running
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earth
ᐧ
sky
ᐧ
wanting
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kissing
concepts
10
“Her lips were red, her looks were free,Her locks were yellow as gold:Her skin was white as leprosy,The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,Who thicks man’s blood with cold.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
author
Rime of the ancient mariner
book
lips
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death
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blood
concepts
11
“Her lips were red, her looks were free,Her locks were yellow as gold:Her skin was white as leprosy,The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,Who thicks man’s blood with cold.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
author
Rime of the ancient mariner
book
lips
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death
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life
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nightmares
concepts
12
“She turned her back and put the water on to boil. But not before I got a glimpse of her lips tightening. An ugly grimace. My sugar-and-spice grandmother with such a nasty look. I feel guilty. But I couldn’t ask, Nanna, do you and Mamma hate each other? How could I say such a thing?”
Silvana Gandolfi
author
Aldabra
book
Nana
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Nonna Eia
characters
magic
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fiction novel
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mothers
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lips
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lips tightening
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ugly
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ugly grimace
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nasty look
concepts
13
“The shape of lips. The shape of ships. The shape of water when it drips.”
Dr. Seuss
author
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
book
shapes
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lips
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ships
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dripping water
concepts
14
“Once more he stepped into the street and to his lips again laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane. Before he blew three notes (so sweet and soft, and yet so cunning), there was a rustling that seemed like a bustling of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling. Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, and, like fowls on a farm when barley is scattering, out came the children running.”
Robert Browning
author
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
book
Pied Piper
character
streets
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lips
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cunning
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feet
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shoes
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hands
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clapping
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tongues
ᐧ
chattering
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children
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running
concepts
15
“His odd coat from heel to head was half of yellow and half of red, and he himself was tall and thin, with sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, and light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, no tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, but lips where smiles went out and in: there was no guessing his origin.”
Robert Browning
author
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
book
Pied Piper
character
coat
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tall
ᐧ
eyes
ᐧ
beards
ᐧ
lips
ᐧ
Smiles
ᐧ
guessing
ᐧ
odd
concepts
16
“Into the streets the Piper stepped, smiling first a little smile, as if he knew what magic slept in his still pipe all the while, for there his secret spells were kept. Then blowing soft, his lips he wrinkled, and green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled like candle flames where salt is sprinkled.”
Robert Browning
author
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
book
Pied Piper
character
streets
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smiling
ᐧ
magic
ᐧ
secrets
ᐧ
spells
ᐧ
lips
ᐧ
candle
ᐧ
eyes
ᐧ
blow
concepts
17
“When a golden girl can winPrayer from out the lips of sin,When the barren almond bears,And a little child gives away its tears,Then shall all the house be stillAnd peace comes to Canterville.”
Oscar Wilde
author
The Canterville Ghost
book
Virginia
character
golden
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girls
ᐧ
to win
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prayer
ᐧ
lips
ᐧ
sin
ᐧ
little
ᐧ
houses
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peace
concepts