"For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms."
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"I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered."
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"My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else."
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"He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me."
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"I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms."
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"God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm."
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"I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless."
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"You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom."
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"Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle."
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"Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister."
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"He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule."
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"It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms."
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"Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s."
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"I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy."
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"You don't have to twist my arm to work."
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"At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it."
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"Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists."
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"I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage."
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"Memories of ice and Trent surfaced, and I wrapped my arms around my middle. I had saved him, and he had saved me. What was wrong with us?"
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