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What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always… — David Clement-Davies
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay… — Sylvia Plath
You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing… — George Orwell
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think… — G.A. Henty
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?"… — Douglas Adams
But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble… — Norton Juster
galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello.… — Jack Kerouac
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."… — Neil Gaiman
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home… — David Sedaris
What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when… — A A Milne
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. — Confucius
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed,"… — Lloyd Alexander
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
We asked for workers. We got people instead. — Max Frisch
In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question. — Thomas Merton
...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all. — Ian Caldwell
Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You… — John Crowley
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. — Kurt Vonnegut
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,'… — Elwyn Brooks White
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots… — P.G. Wodehouse
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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