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“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”
Source: Notorious Pleasures

“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”
Source: Praise

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”
Variant: The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Context: There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

“It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”
Variant: Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Source: 1Q84

Variant: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women

“Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane…”

“If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”

Source: NOS4A2

“I will feast on enemies of Ra until my belly is full!”
“Charming,” Sadie whispered.”
Source: The Red Pyramid

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

“Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave”
Source: Sweethearts

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.”

Source: Suite Française
Description: from the The Dhammapada
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)

“Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying”
Haymitch Abernathy and Katniss (pp. 110-111)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "This is your earpiece. I will give you exactly one more chance to wear it. If you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle. "It's an alternative audio unit that locks around your skull and under your chin until it's opened with a key. And I'll have the only key. If for some reason you're clever enough to disable it,"—Haymitch dumps the head shackle on the bed and whips out a tiny silver chip—"I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day."
Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter.

“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”

Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.
Source: Burn for Me

“The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“It's a full time job with a part-time companion.”
Source: Bared to You

Source: The Mountains of California

Source: Unknown Book 7074565

Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”


“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”
Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Leaves of Grass

“Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.”
Source: Magic Bleeds

“There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.”