 "Oh, it's nothing, you just have to provide the gosling with food and water and shelter, make him feel loved but don't pamper him too much, keep him away from danger, and make sure he learns to walk and talk and swim and fly and get along with others and look after himself. And that's really all there is to motherhood!"
From The Wild Robot, Peter Brown  "...if you want to win hearts, you need heartbeats at the center of the action."
From The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean, Susan Casey  "Love isn't wrong. A single individual cannot destroy a world. If that world was doomed, then it was the result of the efforts of everyone, including those living and those who had already died."
From Death's End, Cixin Liu, trans. Ken Liu  "Three common reshapings of the basic declarative sentence are the interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory. All three make demands. A question calls for an answer, an imperative calls for an action, an exclamation calls for experiencing an emotion."
From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte  "Apposition is a matter of word placement. As the root of the word indicates, apposition is juxtaposition, placing one thing beside or near another.
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