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5201 Asked quotes by 2862 unique authors
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...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on…
— Gunter Grass
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She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung…
— Ken Kesey
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Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch…
— Ally Carter
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Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her…
— Cassandra Clare
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I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you…
— Abbi Glines
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If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco…
— Ally Carter
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You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something…
— Nicholas Sparks
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We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,'…
— Gerald Durrell
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Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized…
— Gerald Durrell
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She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone…
— Jodi Picoult
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So we know she's safe and taken care of?" Daniel asked, and she nodded. "Good. Then why don't we do something that you want to…
— Amanda Hocking
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Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in…
— Suzanne Collins
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Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. "He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles…
— Patricia Briggs
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She asked him the question she had been asking herself for the past few days. "Why are you being so nice to me now?" J.D.…
— Julie James
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Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left her alone in…
— Jay Asher
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The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was…
— Rick Riordan
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What took you so long?” Nash asked, as he slid into the passenger seat and pulled the door closed. “I stopped to donate all your…
— Rachel Vincent
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He then kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you,…
— Libba Bray
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His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
— James A. Baldwin
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I should go in alone," Valkyrie said, speaking loudly to be heard. "If we both go in, it'll look to official." "So I'll just stay…
— Derek Landy
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The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill…
— Ted Dekker
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If anything happens, Marcus will save you. Won't you, Marcus? Hale asked, looking up at the man, who nodded. It would be an honor, Miss.
— Ally Carter
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