I've retreated to what I was originally, which is an individual songwriter. — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
“I know I haven’t ‘taken a step back or retreated from a better future.” — Kirsten Beyer Copy Share Image
“Shadows did not flee, but merely retreated and regrouped and stood sentinel.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“His eyes found mine, and for a moment I felt as if all the air in the room had retreated.” — Barbara A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I’d known love before, and it had brought me so much pain that I had retreated behind an impenetrable wall of indifference,… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“A dutiful soldier, I retreated to the ditches as ordered and hunkered down there. In those ditches, I had an epiphany. People… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Don't worry," I said, as the feeling retreated. "I'm not interested in that Neanderthal.” — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours. — Halsey Copy Share Image
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Maybe I had been alone in that apartment so much by then that I had retreated into some kind of inner, unsociable… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“I retreated even further into myself…. I imploded over and over and no one knew it. I got anger at the fact… — Carol Wambui Ngabura Copy Share Image
I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
“They don't care about hearing the other side. They don't even think there is another side.” … “Right! The country has retreated… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
“The bad thing caught you. I’ve never retreated in my life. I’ve never backed away from a fight and I’ve never cowered… — Courtney Cole Copy Share Image
“The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy… — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
“She wasn't a cowardIf she were she would have retreated back into her shell years before and pulled back entirely from life.… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
“I had done something wrong. I shouldn't have shown him. But he had known, hadn't he? What had I done? I retreated… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“As quickly as they had advanced, the Comanches retreated. Loretta, buffeted by the wind, stood alone on the flats until they rode… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“ I was young at Myna, that first time. When had the change come? He had retreated to here, to Collegium, to… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“The Empress Dowager, the man continued, was much distressed, and had given orders to stop the fighting; the Boxers were fools... Then… — Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the best thing about getting my sight back will be?” he asked softly. “No,” she replied, all of… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
“But, for now, I retreated back down the little hidden staircase into the familiar world of the basement of the Natural History… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Beside me Makin looked to have retreated into that closed and lonely place that we all reach if we keep digging. Dig… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the… — Ivan Bagramyan Copy Share Image
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“we had allowed our eyes to meet only once- by accident as much as out of necessity- and not ten seconds had… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
