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1 " Quinn shucked his jeans but left his boxers on as he crawled on the bed and covered her body - kissing her along the way. " I think one of us is still overdressed," he murmured. She couldn't help but tease him. " I was wondering why you left your boxers on." And then he rested his forehead against hers, closed his eyes, and smiled. " You're not going to make this easy, are you?" She shook her head. " I was hoping to make it... hard. Very, very hard. "
2 " Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--" friend" and " real" and " story" and " change" --words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like " identity" and " search" and " cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had " American" become an ironic term? How had " democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way? "
3 " But let us be sure of something. We are not sheep. This government is ours, and it is meant to serve our best interests. And if it has grown into something it shouldn't be, and shucked off the rules of the Constitution it was based on, then it is our responsibility to rein it back in. "
― Gary Hansen , The Second Revolution
4 " People are lot like peanuts...It's not what's on the outside that matters, and that damn shell just gets shucked into the trash anyhow. "
