Bare Quotes
613 quotes by 487 authors
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The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine…
— Mary Karr
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Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening…
— Daniel Woodrell
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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on…
— Virginia Woolf
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Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know…
— Ann Brashares
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Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four…
— Gunter Grass
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He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.
— Kelley Armstrong
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I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface
— Philip Roth
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She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
— Edith Wharton
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I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the…
— Annie Dillard
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You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights…
— Douglas Coupland
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I just wondered where you —†Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.†“Just thought you’d come nosing around, did you?†Harry…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who…
— Cory Doctorow
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I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best…
— Margaret Mitchell
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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains.…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there…
— Amy Carmichael
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Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at…
— Ayn Rand
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...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that…
— Don DeLillo
Who Wrote These Bare Quotes
487 authors contributed a total of 613 Bare Quotes, led by these top contributors: