Allowed Quotes
2088 Allowed quotes by 1659 unique authors
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I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Sorghum started to answer, but Wheat flew at him and knocked him down. The karpoi began to fight, dissolving into funnel clouds of grain. Hazel…
— Rick Riordan
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The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you…
— Jun Mochizuki
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
— Marilyn Monroe
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I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people…
— Liane Moriarty
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this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.
— David Levithan
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You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.
— Scott Westerfeld
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It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
— Charles Bukowski
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Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad…
— Arundhati Roy
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
— Ann Brashares
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You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Lord Raziel. Surely yoy would not have allowed such a thing as a ritual by wich you might be summoned to exist if you did…
— Cassandra Clare
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I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their…
— Joe Hill
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I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's…
— Suzanne Collins
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In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was…
— Richelle Mead
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Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not…
— Naomi Wolf
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And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the…
— Alyson Noel
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Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the filch on an…
— Frances Hardinge
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Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.
— Elie Wiesel
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Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top…
— Paullina Simons
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The Princess and the Pea?" Gabrielle suggested. "Not enough time," Kat said "Where's Waldo?" Gabrielle went on. "No." Hamish recoiled. "I am still not allowed…
— Ally Carter
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Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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