Quote Source / Literature

Below listed are pages with quotes taken from literature.

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• The 13 Clocks
  • Characters as Device

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• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • A Match Made in Stockholm
  • I'm Going to Hell for This
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?

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• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Fence Painting

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• The Aeneid
  • Forging Scene

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• Alex Rider
  • Teen Superspy

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• Alcatraz Series
  • Action Prologue

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• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • An Aesop

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• The Allegory of Love
  • Smug Smiler

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• American Gods
  • All Myths Are True
  • Native American Mythology
  • Never Heard That One Before

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• America (The Book)
  • East Indies

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• Anansi Boys
  • Feathered Fiend

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• And Then There Were None
  • Last Survivor Suicide

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• The Angel of History
  • Homophobic Hate Crime

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• Animal Farm
  • Ape Shall Never Kill Ape

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• Animorphs
  • Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
  • Reasonable Authority Figure
  • This Is Reality

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• Anna Karenina
  • Dysfunctional Family

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• Annals
  • Older Is Better

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• Apology of Socrates
  • The Parent Trope

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• Arabian Nights
  • Our Genies Are Different

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• Archmaester Gyldayn's Histories
  • The Dying Walk

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• The Areas of My Expertise
  • The Scottish Trope

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• Artemis Fowl
  • Battle Butler
  • I Was Never Here
  • What an Idiot!

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• The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
  • Hostage for MacGuffin
  • I Shall Taunt You

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• As I Lay Dying
  • One-Paragraph Chapter

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• Aubrey-Maturin
  • Tropes at Sea

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• The Belgariad
  • Someday This Will Come in Handy (The Malloreon)

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• Belisarius Series
  • Bodyguarding a Badass
  • Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards

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• Beowulf
  • Famed In-Story

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• Between Planets
  • Dead Man's Switch

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• The Black Company
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something

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The Bible

• Book of Genesis
  • Cain and Abel
  • Flaming Sword
  • Jacob and Esau
  • Light Is Good
  • Meaningful Rename
  • Reduced to Dust
• Book of Exodus
  • Burn the Witch! (KJV)
  • Reasoning with God
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill
• Book of Leviticus
  • The Power of Blood
• Book of Judges
  • Bad with the Bone
  • Punished for Sympathy (KJV)
• Book of Ruth
  • Undying Loyalty
• Books of Samuel
  • Do with Him as You Will
  • Uriah Gambit
• Books of Kings
  • Ruling Family Massacre
  • Taking Up the Mantle
• Book of Job
  • Sole Survivor
• Book of Psalms
  • Be Yourself
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation
  • Karmic Death
  • The Sacred Darkness
• Book of Proverbs
  • Break the Haughty
  • Can't Take Criticism
  • Heroic Second Wind
  • Pride Before a Fall
  • Textile Work Is Feminine
• Book of Ecclesiastes
  • All for Nothing
  • A Child Shall Lead Them
  • History Repeats
  • The Oldest Ones in the Book
• Book of Ezekiel
  • A God Am I
• Book of Joel
  • The Armies of Heaven
• Book of Zechariah
  • Elders
  • Tears of Remorse
• The Four Gospels
  • Authority Tropes
  • The Blind Leading the Blind
  • Blind Mistake
  • Children Are Innocent
  • CIA
  • Dysfunctional Family Index
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
  • Gambit Index
  • Guardian Angel
  • Heroic Sacrifice
  • His Own Worst Enemy
  • I Am Legion
  • Many Spirits Inside of One
  • Perception Filter
  • Second Coming
  • Sophomore Slump
  • The Stars Are Going Out
  • Think Nothing of It
  • Turn the Other Cheek
• Acts of the Apostles
  • Redemption Equals Affliction
• Book of Romans
  • Know-Nothing Know-It-All
  • Misery Builds Character
• Book of Corinthians
  • Divinely Appearing Demons
  • The Four Loves
  • Long Hair Is Feminine
• Book of Hebrews
  • Angel Unaware (KJV)
• Epistles of John
  • Evil Is Not Well-Lit
• Book of Revelation
  • Fallen Angel
  • Gratuitous Greek
  • Number of the Beast
  • Judgement of the Dead

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• Born a Crime
  • Hiding Your Heritage
  • One Drop Rule
  • Pass Fail
  • Persecution Flip

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• Bridget Jones
  • Ice Queen

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• The Call of Cthulhu
  • Go Mad from the Revelation

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The Camp Half-Blood Series

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
  • Bazaar of the Bizarre
  • Gray Eyes
  • Hot God
  • Pantheon Sitcom
  • Struggling Single Mother
  • Underwater Kiss
• The Heroes of Olympus
  • Bonding Over Missing Parents
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight

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• The Canterbury Tales
  • Literal Ass Kissing

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• Cap o' Rushes
  • Scullery Maid

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• Captain Underpants
  • Here We Go Again!

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• Casey at the Bat
  • Downer Ending

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• Catch-22
  • Kangaroo Court

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• Catullus 85
  • Tsundere

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• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Shaped Like Itself

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• Child Ballads
  • Even the Guys Want Him

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• The Children of Húrin
  • Curse

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• A Christmas Carol
  • Christmas Tropes
  • The Hilarious Table

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The Chronicles of Narnia

• Prince Caspian
  • Flynning
  • Too Awesome to Use
• The Horse and His Boy
  • God Was My Copilot

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• Chronicles of the Kencyrath
  • Unbalanced by Rival's Kid

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• The Clocks
  • IKEA Erotica

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• Clockwork Orange
  • Freedom from Choice

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• Cloud Atlas
  • Teeth Flying

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• Codex Alera
  • Achievement In Ignorance
  • Follow the Chaos

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• Cold Comfort Farm
  • She Cleans Up Nicely

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Conan the Barbarian

• The Devil in Iron
  • Humanoid Abomination
• Xuthal of the Dusk
  • Lightning Bruiser

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• Confessions
  • Moral Myopia

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The Cosmere

• The Stormlight Archive
  • Messianic Archetype
  • Order Reborn
• Warbreaker
  • No One Could Survive That!

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• The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Determinator
  • Earn Your Happy Ending

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The Culture

• Use of Weapons
  • Literal Surveillance Bug

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• The Dark Tower
  • The Gunslinger
• Wizard and Glass
  • The Man Behind the Curtain

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• Dear Dumb Diary
  • Dumb Is Good

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• The Devil's Dictionary
  • The Hermit

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Discworld

• Battlecry
• Brainless Beauty
• Crazy Homeless People
• Something Something Leonard Bernstein
• The Colour of Magic
  • Flat-Earth Atheist
• The Light Fantastic
  • Cave Mouth
• Mort
  • Ermine Cape Effect
  • Sinister Scythe
• Sourcery
  • Smoldering Shoes
• Wyrd Sisters
  • Fisher King
  • I Have Many Names
  • Lady Macbeth
  • Out, Damned Spot!
• Guards! Guards!
  • Audible Gleam
  • Black and Gray Morality
  • Mooks
  • Oblivious Adoption
  • Quiet Cry for Help
  • Rightful King Returns
  • Shoot Out the Lock
• Eric
  • Fetish
  • Tranquil Fury
• Moving Pictures
  • Bavarian Fire Drill
• Reaper Man
  • Hair-Trigger Avalanche
• Witches Abroad
  • Fantastic Racism
  • Villains Want Mercy
  • What Did I Do Last Night?
• Small Gods
  • Chess Motifs
  • Grandpa God
  • Real Dreams Are Weirder
• Lords and Ladies
  • Experience Entitlement
  • Morphic Resonance
• Soul Music
  • Pony Tale
• Interesting Times
  • Evil Chancellor
  • Nubile Savage
• Maskerade
  • A Bloody Mess
• Feet of Clay
  • Bolt of Divine Retribution
  • The Kingslayer
• Hogfather
  • Disneyfication
  • False Reassurance
  • Gargle Blaster
  • Self-Made Orphan
  • Sympathetic Magic
• Jingo
  • Cutlass Between the Teeth
• The Last Continent
  • Hollywood Natives
  • Wizarding School
• Carpe Jugulum
  • Haunted Castle
  • Our Vampires Are Different
• The Fifth Elephant
  • No Smoking
  • The Unapologetic
• The Truth
  • Terms of Endangerment
  • Vampire Vords
• The Last Hero
  • Sarcasm Failure
• Thief of Time
  • Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
• Night Watch
  • Colour-Coded Timestop
  • Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
  • Nothing Up My Sleeve
  • Urban Warfare
• Going Postal
  • Underdogs Never Lose
• Thud!
  • Powder Keg Crowd
• Making Money
  • Table Space
• Unseen Academicals
  • Passive-Aggressive Kombat
• Men at Arms
  • Fantastic Light Source
  • Good Is Not Soft
• Monstrous Regiment
  • Military Moonshiner
• I Shall Wear Midnight
  • Centipede's Dilemma

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• The Divine Comedy
  • Beast with a Human Face
  • Door of Doom
  • Lampshade Hanging

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• A Dog's Way Home
  • Animal Chick Magnet

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• Don Quixote
  • Windmill Crusader

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• The Doubtful Guest
  • The Thing That Would Not Leave

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• Dracula
  • Überwald

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• The Dresden Files
  • Gilded Cage
  • Kung-Fu Wizard
• Cold Days
  • Insurrectionist Inheritor
• Dead Beat
  • Dying Alone
  • Evil-Detecting Dog
• Ghost Story
  • Distracted by the Sexy
  • Sophisticated as Hell
• Proven Guilty
  • Like Parent, Like Spouse
• Skin Game
  • Inevitable Mutual Betrayal
• Small Favor
  • Pintsized Powerhouse
  • Polite Villains, Rude Heroes
• White Night
  • Unexpected Virgin

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• Dune
  • Ban on A.I.
  • Due to the Dead

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• Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip
  • Wake-Up Fighting

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• The Elenium
  • Gods Need Prayer Badly

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• Emma
  • Acquired Situational Narcissism

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• Ender's Game
  • Deconstruction

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• Eugene Onegin
  • Love Letter

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• Everworld
  • Love Martyr

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• Excession
  • Outside-Context Problem

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• The Executioner
  • Would Not Shoot a Good Guy

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• Fantasy Encyclopedia
  • Our Gnomes Are Weirder

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• Father Brown
  • Mistaken for Servant

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• The Fault in Our Stars
  • Trauma Swing

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• Firebird Trilogy
  • Comes Great Responsibility

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• The First Law
  • Male Frontal Nudity

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• Flashman
  • General Failure

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• The Folding Knife
  • The Trickster

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• Forbidden
  • Incest Is Relative
  • Middle Child Syndrome
  • Stupid Sexy Friend

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• Foundation
  • Anti-Hero
  • Xanatos Speed Chess

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• Frankenstein
  • These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know

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• Good Omens
  • Anti Anti Christ
  • Don't Try This at Home
  • Elvis Lives

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• Graceling
  • 100% Adoration Rating

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• Great Expectations
  • Broken Bird
  • Evil Mentor

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• The Great Gatsby
  • Loving a Shadow
  • The Matchmaker

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• Green
  • Friendly Rivalry

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Harry Potter

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Crocodile Tears
  • Eccentric Mentor
  • Fictional Sport
  • Obsessively Normal
  • Scars Are Forever
  • Skewed Priorities
  • Stern Teacher
  • What Is Evil?
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Feet of Clay
  • Muggles
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Imaginary Love Triangle
  • Nice to the Waiter
  • Sacrificial Lion
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Embarrassing First Name
  • Intergenerational Friendship
  • The Magocracy
  • Rage Against the Mentor
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Extremely Dusty Home
  • Gonky Femme
  • Operation: Jealousy
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Badass on Paper
  • Belated Backstory
  • Now or Never Kiss
  • Reluctant Ruler
  • Signature Move
  • So Proud of You
  • Tragic Keepsake

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• Heralds of Valdemar
  • Safety in Indifference

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• Heroics for Beginners
  • Milking the Giant Cow

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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment
  • Huge Rider, Tiny Mount
  • Humiliating Wager
  • Narrating the Obvious
  • Reality Is Out to Lunch
  • Sapient Cetaceans
  • Shiny-Looking Spaceships
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Robot
• Life, the Universe and Everything
  • I Know Madden Kombat

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• The Hobbit
  • Badass Boast
  • Dragon Tropes
  • Out of the Frying Pan
  • Stronger with Age

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• The Hundred and One Dalmatians
  • Dog Walks You
  • Mink Becomes This Index Most
  • Opulent Outfits

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• The Hunger Games
  • Debt Detester
  • Mystery Meat

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• The Hunting of the Snark
  • Rule of Three

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• I Am America (And So Can You!)
  • "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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• The Iliad
  • Achilles in His Tent

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• Iorich
  • Too Clever by Half

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• Inside Out
  • Important Haircut

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• The Invention of Tradition
  • Newer Than They Think

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• It
  • Child Eater
  • Politically Incorrect Villain

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• The Jungle Book
  • Noble Wolf
  • Staring Down Cthulhu

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• The Last Unicorn
  • Broken Heel
  • Unicorn

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• The Library of Babel
  • Great Big Library of Everything

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• Little Women
  • Settle for Sibling

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• Lolita
  • Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower

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• The Lord of the Rings
  • Battering Ram
  • Bearer of Bad News
  • Black Speech
  • The Cavalry
  • The Chosen Wannabe
  • Color-Coded Wizardry
  • Deep Sleep
  • Double-Edged Answer
  • Dug Too Deep
  • Evil Tower of Ominousness
  • Five Races
  • Giant Flyer
  • Giant Spider
  • Healing Hands
  • Least Is First
  • Medical Monarch
  • Naked on Revival
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
  • Regent for Life
  • Royal Blood
  • Unfamiliar Ceiling
  • Waking Up Elsewhere
  • What a Senseless Waste of Human Life
  • Wound That Will Not Heal

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• Lullaby
  • Big Bad

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• The Magicians
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?

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• The Magids
  • Fan Convention

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• Mansfield Park
  • Elegant Classical Musician

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• McAuslan
  • Funetik Aksent

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• The Meaning of Liff
  • Zeerust

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• The Metamorphosis
  • Just Woke Up That Way

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• Mirror Dance
  • The Resenter
  • Too Kinky to Torture

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• Les Misérables
  • Lawful Neutral

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• Miss Marple
  • Little Old Lady Investigates

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• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
  • Invisible Streaker (Hollow City)
  • Nothing but Skin and Bones (Hollow City)

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• Mister Roberts
  • Let's Get Dangerous!
  • Naughty Birdwatching

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• Moby-Dick
  • Dying Declaration of Hate
  • Taking You with Me

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• A Modest Proposal
  • Eats Babies

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• More Information Than You Require
  • Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday

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• The Mortal Instruments
  • Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids

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• Mostly Harmless
  • Spanner in the Works
  • Trilogy Creep

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• The Mourning Bride
  • Woman Scorned

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• My Uncle Oswald
  • Freud Was Right

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• Naked Lunch
  • Unholy Ground

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• The Name of the Wind
  • Beware the Nice Ones

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• Nero Wolfe
  • They're Called Personal Issues for a Reason

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• Neuromancer
  • Cyberspace

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• Neverwhere
  • Beware the Silly Ones
  • Those Two Bad Guys

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• New Jedi Order
  • You Can't Go Home Again

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• Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Airstrip One
  • Big Brother Is Watching
  • Doublethink
  • Dystopia
  • Malevolent Mugshot
  • Orwellian Retcon
  • Room 101
  • Same Surname Means Related
  • Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
  • Swarm of Rats
  • Thoughtcrime
  • Unperson

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• Northanger Abbey
  • Family-Unfriendly Aesop

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• Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
  • Nice Guy

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• The Number of the Beast
  • Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter

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• Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  • Unable to Cry

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• One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Magic Realism

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• On Fairy-Stories
  • Land of Faerie

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• The Other Boleyn Girl
  • Light Feminine and Dark Feminine

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• Our Mutual Friend
  • Narm

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• Outbound Flight
  • Sparing the Aces

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• Palimpsest
  • Mythpunk

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• Paradise Lost
  • The Atoner
  • Self-Inflicted Hell

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• Persuasion
  • Meaningful Look

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• The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Spelling Nazi

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• The Plague Dogs
  • Only the Author Can Save Them Now

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• Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
  • No-Sell

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• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • The One Who Made It Out

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• Pride and Prejudice
  • Anguished Declaration of Love
  • Dances and Balls
  • Rejection Affection

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• The Prince
  • Church Militant
  • The Evil Prince
  • Vetinari Job Security

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• The Princess and the Goblin
  • I Gave My Word

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• The Princess Bride
  • Egomaniac Hunter
  • I Am Not Left-Handed
  • Indifferent Beauty
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya
  • Rhyming List
  • To the Pain

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• The Quiet American
  • Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow

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• The Rape of the Lock
  • Edit War

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• The Raven
  • The Lost Lenore

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• Ready Player One
  • Anti-Escapism Aesop

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• Redwall
  • Wicked Weasel

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• The Robots of Dawn
  • Epiphanic Prison

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• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  • Balkanize Me

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• The Rose Tree
  • Family-Unfriendly Death

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• The Saga of Hrolf Kraki
  • The Berserker

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• 'Salem's Lot
  • Kiss of the Vampire

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• The Screwtape Letters
  • Appeal to Consequences
  • Heaven Seeker

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• The Shadow
  • Living Shadow

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Sherlock Holmes

• A Study in Scarlet
  • Go Out with a Smile
• The Sign of the Four
  • Great Detective
• A Scandal In Bohemia
  • Caper Rationalization
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
  • Artifact of Attraction
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band
  • Deadly Doctor
• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
  • Try Everything
• The Adventure of Silver Blaze
  • Absence of Evidence
• The Yellow Face
  • My Greatest Failure
• The Final Problem
  • Diabolical Mastermind
• His Last Bow
  • A Storm Is Coming
• The Three Garridebs
  • Not So Stoic

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• The Silence of the Lambs
  • Hannibal Lecture

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• The Silver Stallion
  • Crapsack World

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• Skulduggery Pleasant
  • Power High

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• Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Unstuck in Time

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• Snow Crash
  • Chromatic Arrangement

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• Solomon Kane
  • Knight Errant

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• A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Bar Sinister
  • Conflicting Loyalty
  • Dead Guy on Display
  • Death Glare
  • Flaying Alive
  • Kingmaker Scenario
  • Lovable Traitor
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me
  • Metallic Motifs
  • Mister Big
  • Royally Screwed Up
  • Scar Survey
  • Smitten Teenage Girl
  • Sympathy for the Hero

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Star Wars Legends

• Shatterpoint
  • Luck-Based Mission

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• Survivor Dogs
  • Automobiles Are Alien
  • Those Wily Coyotes

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• Swan Song
  • Empathy Doll Shot

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• Tactics of Mistake
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Minored In Ass Kicking

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• Tailchaser's Song
  • Animal Religion

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• A Tale of Time City
  • Oral Fixation

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• Tam Lin
  • All Hallows' Eve
  • White Stallion

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• Theory Of The Leisure Class
  • Mock Millionaire

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• The Three Musketeers
  • Band of Brothers

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• Tigana
  • Parting Words Regret

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• Till We Have Faces
  • The Faceless
  • Perspective Flip

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Tortall Universe

• Protector of the Small
  • Mage Killer

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• Trainspotting
  • Despair Event Horizon

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• Tricky Business
  • Vomit Chain Reaction

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• Ubik
  • Stepford Smiler

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• Ulysses
  • No Punctuation Period

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• VALIS
  • Break Them by Talking

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Vorkosigan Saga

• A Civil Campaign
  • ReassignedToAntarctica.Literature
• The Vor Game
  • Xanatos Gambit

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• The War Against the Chtorr
  • Sexy Walk

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War of the Spider Queen

• Condemnation
  • Poke in the Third Eye

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• Warrior Cats
  • Follow in My Footsteps

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• The Wasteland
  • Fear Tropes
  • Tarot Motifs

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• Watership Down
  • Fragile Speedster

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• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick

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• Wicked Gentlemen
  • Drowning My Sorrows

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• The Widow of Desire
  • Luxury Tropes

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• Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Old Windbag
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are

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• Worldwar
  • Aliens Never Invented Democracy

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• World War Z
  • Dystopia Is Hard

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• Worm
  • Benevolent A.I.
  • Hero of Another Story
  • Hero with an F in Good
  • Manchurian Agent
  • Slowly Slipping Into Evil
  • Took a Level in Idealism
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening

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• Xanth
  • Pretty in Mink -- Literature (Centaur Aisle)

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• The Zombie Knight
  • Never Going Back to Prison

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