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The Prince of Hell shrugged. 'Shit Happens — Jana Oliver

Go then." I shrugged. "And if you lock yourself out of your car don't call me. I won't be answering my cell phone. — Penny Reid

There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity. — Ayn Rand

She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland. — Ayn Rand

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit.
Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is. — Jeaniene Frost

It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault."
"Or everyone's. — Scott Westerfeld

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs

You know about Star Trek?" came out of Stark's mouth before his brain could stop it.
Again, the warrior shrugged. "We do have the satellite. — Kristin Cast

It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. — Ayn Rand

Vic's jaw snapped shut. "You didn't tell me the men here were all so ... hot." Lexi shrugged. "It's Colorado. — Pamela Clare

He seemed casually at home, as if he felt that the place belonged to them, as they always felt wherever they went together. — Ayn Rand

Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette. — D.C. Farmer

I'm not interested."
"That's a shame," I shrugged. "It would have been fun to slum it. — Teresa Mummert

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that? — David Eddings

What happened?" He directed the question her way. Hadleigh shrugged, it seemed obvious to her. "I think I broke the pretty one. — Jane Cousins

Sex is the physical expression of a tribute to personal values. — Ayn Rand

So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't." She shrugged. "That pretty much sums up quantum physics. — James Rollins

Because," she shrugged, "without the bad, we would never appreciate the good in life. — Micalea Smeltzer

What are you laughing at?"
"It's wonderful."
"What?"
"The way you don't react as everybody else does nowadays. — Ayn Rand

You spit in this?"
"Yup."
Chris shrugged. "As long as you're honest. — R.L. Mathewson

Really?" I asked. "Misty Steele?" Marcus shrugged. "It was Adrian's suggestion." "It's badass," insisted Adrian. — Richelle Mead

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. — Ayn Rand

On't worry about the goddamn bastards. The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm. — Ayn Rand

Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet. — Philip Reeve

I ... great, I can talk again."
"Well." Charlie shrugged. "Paradise can only last so long, right? — Samantha Young

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand. — Ayn Rand

Sexiest is definitely Drusilla, though if you ask a girl, she'll probably say Damon Salvatore or Edward Cullen. But . . . He shrugged. — Cassandra Clare

There's no way to make the irrational work. — Ayn Rand

It was not the mockery of malice - it was the laughter of a salute. — Ayn Rand

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically. — Ayn Rand

Life?" I suggested. She shrugged. "Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain." "Life," I said. — Jim Butcher

He shrugged. "Try thinking of me - how good-looking I am. How talented - " "How arrogant." "That, — Sarah J. Maas

Perrin sighed, and shrugged again. She had not asked him to keep the beard, and she would not. Yet he knew he was going to put off shaving again. — Robert Jordan

Did you just compare your sexual prowess to Chuck Norris's karate skills?" I asked. "Same thing." Gabe shrugged. Shaking — Rachel Van Dyken

Compulsion, guilt, pick your poison.' Meaty shrugged. 'You make a better nurse than a patient. — Cassie Alexander

What do elves consider a living wage?" Keith whispered to Gunther.

Gunther just shrugged. "Their own pair of pants? — Nicole Kimberling

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck. — Jodi Picoult

How did you know about my candy stash?"
Vincent innocently shrugged. "I needed tape and stumbled across your Willy Wonka drawer — Victoria Michaels

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? — Ayn Rand

There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, but it was only impatience, not pain. — Ayn Rand

What is today? She'd lost track over the last few days.

Pixii shrugged. First day after firing the kiln. — Wen Spencer

There was so calm, so natural, so total a certainty in the sound of her voice that the mere sound seemed to carry an immense persuasiveness. — Ayn Rand

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake. — Patrick Rothfuss

I shrugged unable to deny I wasn't checking him out. "The new — Kirsty Dallas

How'd you remember my brother's name?" She shrugged, not quite understanding the gleam in his eye. "You told me. Why wouldn't I remember it? — Sarah J. Maas

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice. — Ayn Rand

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course. — Lucy Christopher

I am in full agreement with the facts of everything said about me in the newspapers - with the facts, but not with the evaluation. — Ayn Rand

your butt somehow." Jordan shrugged. "I just took — David Baldacci

Hmm," Joseph shrugged. "Good point. Who needs a caravan guard when you've got a Genshwin? — S.G. Night

I let him get a few steps away, and then I asked the burning question. "Why were you here?"
Luke shrugged. "You wanted saving, didn't you? — Maggie Stiefvater

How much do you know of La Mayonnaise?" she inquired.

He shrugged. "Maybe up to the part that goes 'Aux armes, citoyens' - — Thomas Pynchon

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. — Ayn Rand

But i can't let you go," he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart" - he shrugged - "and I love you. — Lauren Myracle

Did you follow me here?" I asked.
Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

What do you say? A date with Laz Bromwell? Since your married, I'll do you both." He shrugged. "I'm magnanimous like that. — Pam Godwin

I never knew we had allies in these areas did you Agres?" Nicka asked, Agres shrugged "You learn something new everyday. — Charon Lloyd-Roberts

Prince Andrei shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The — Leo Tolstoy

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy - she felt a stab of revulsion against that code.. — Ayn Rand

I was looking for Simon." Jordan squinted at her. "It's two in the morning." She shrugged. "He's a vampire." "But I'm not. — Cassandra Clare

Naomi shrugged with her hands, then started pulling her hair behind her head and tying it up with a red elastic band. — James S.A. Corey

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious."
Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us? — Brandon Sanderson

Feel like a freak. Unless le freak, c'est chic?" She shrugged. "To be fair, they only rise up whenever immortals do. — Kresley Cole

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

We do not tell - we show. We do not claim - we prove. — Ayn Rand

Ranael looked askance at him. "What do you really think?" The Herun shrugged. "Does a serpent's nature change when it sheds its skin? — Eresse

Ben shrugged his shoulders. "I find that people who have good luck in their lives tend to have good luck medically." Perhaps there is truth in this. — Sally Ryder Brady

The goddess shrugged. 'One of my sons recently traded an eye for the ability to make a real difference in the world. — Rick Riordan

Someone said you can't trust happiness.' 'Who was that idiot?' I shrugged. 'Let yourself be happy, Neal. — Barbara Morgenroth

Your fear of death is not a love for life. . . — Ayn Rand

You've bitten her, but she's not yours." "Yet." "Looking for a challenge?" Baojia shrugged. "I hate being bored." The earth vampire just laughed. When — Elizabeth Hunter

Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you. — Stephenie Meyer

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming

And no cheating, Lady." he said.
"But who could cheat Fate?" she asked. He shrugged."No-one. Yet everyone tries. — Terry Pratchett

so you picked the most popular one as your 'look how normal I am' answer if anyone ever asked." I sighed again and shrugged. "Fine, you got me. And — Dan Wells

Nothing can justify injustice. — Ayn Rand

You catch more flies with honey, ever heard of that?" He shrugged. "I don't like flies. They're annoying." He grinned "I'd rather catch hell. — Heather Hildenbrand

I lie, I forge I blackmail." Edward shrugged. "But cheating at cards? I'd never stoop so low."

"Good to know you have some principles. — Courtney Milan

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness. — Ayn Rand

King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me. — Erin Kellison

When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands. — Libba Bray

Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth. — Ian McEwan

There was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. — Ayn Rand

Dad, is she serious?"
John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn't feed me. So i dont argue with your mama. — Molly McAdams

What glory can there be in the conquest of a mindless body? — Ayn Rand

Why are you doing this?" Rod asked. "You hate gay men like me."
Hunter shrugged. "There are no men like you, gay or otherwise. — Tara Lain

I push everyone I love away."
He shrugged.
"I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister. — Kristin Cashore

But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning. — Ally Carter

Madame Lefoux shrugged. I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter. — Gail Carriger

You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.
Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows? — Terry Pratchett

His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth. — Ayn Rand

This is a dandelion, " I told him. He shrugged. "I know. Some see a weed; some see a flower. Perspective. — Kiera Cass

Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives - and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. — Ayn Rand

She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness. — Ayn Rand

He shrugged, facing the fire. But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. — Patrick Rothfuss

The source of work? Man's mind ... man's reasoning mind. — Ayn Rand

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"
Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse. — Jeanne DuPrau

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence. — Ayn Rand

Why not?" Trey shrugged. "I owe you, man. — Shilpi Somaya Gowda