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21 " I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me. "
― Mary Pope Osborne , My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 (Dear America)
22 " He did look like an Italian of the worse type, though Vic didn't think he was, and it was an insult to the Italian race to assume that he was. He resembled no particular race, only an amalgamation of the worst elements of various Latin peoples. He looked as if he had spent all his life dodging blows that were probably aimed at him for good reason. "
― Patricia Highsmith , Deep Water
23 " Coming up behind her, Westcliff settled his hands at her waist, easily dodging her attempts to throw him off. He pulled her hips back firmly against his and spoke against her ear. “Are you angry because I started making love to you, or because I didn’t finish?” Lillian licked her dry lips. “I’m angry, you bloody big hypocrite, because you can’t make up your mind about what to do with me.” She punctuated the comment with the hard jab of one elbow back against his ribs.” ~ Marcus and Lillian "
― Lisa Kleypas , It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2)
24 " She turned to him with wide, shocked eyes. " Why did he..." His lips twitched. No coarse language in front of the infants limited the ability to discuss the fountain of baby piss that had just arced halfway across the room. " Twasn't you, darling. It's one of their favorite bath-time games. " Something about the cool air on their naked...berries," he substituted at the last second.... " Do I have piddle in my hair?" she whispered, her eyes sparkling with laughter above her flushed cheeks. " Not much," he assured her with a straight face. " You look almost becoming." ... " Decades from now, when our children ask how I fell in love with their mother, I'll say 'twas her sweet, gentle compliments during bath-time, and her fleetness of foot whilst dodging a flow of --- "
25 " The moon rode in the sky - a hunted thing dodging behind wisps of tattered cloud, and the air was heavy and wet and redolent of dying leaves. (" The Refugee" ) "
26 " Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: " The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive." SMASH!" Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin. "
27 " I’m going to ask you a question,” I said. “And I want an answer this time, no dodging and no playing cryptic. Is the reason you’re leaving because you need to look for Nicholas, or because you want to get away from me?”Daniel looked me square in the eye, unblinking. “The first thing accomplishes the second, now doesn’t it? "
― Angela B. Wade , Fallen River
28 " For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today. "
― Clare Mulley , The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
