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We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things--things we can see--as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful. It's easier to fix on what we can see than listen to the still, small voice of a whispering heart.

Joan Bauer
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We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things--things we can see--as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful. It's easier to fix on what we can see than listen to the still, small voice of a whispering heart.

Joan Bauer, Squashed
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I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

Kiowa Gordon
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The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.(from Who's Who in Hell)

Jack London
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Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

P.S. Martinez
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And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then.

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he’d sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.

James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
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Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."Richard: "Good will triumph over evil."Ellie: "Liar.

Joan Bauer, Squashed
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Better make sure you’re not in my way when I go down.” My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. “You wouldn’t want to get squashed.

J.A. Belfield, Caged
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