Barely Quotes

694 quotes by 540 authors

You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you." - Duncan to Madelyne. — Julie Garwood
There's never been a moment,' he barely said, 'when I didn't recognize you.' She wiped her eyes. Her mascara smeared. He nudged the merry-to-round into… — Rainbow Rowell
Youâ€™re impinging on my private space,â€ I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isnâ€™t the SAT, Nora. — Becca Fitzpatrick
I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if… — Cory Doctorow
What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He flipped through a… — Kelley Armstrong
Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy… — Douglas Coupland
How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself? — David Mazzucchelli
I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference,… — Jennifer Egan
I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no… — MaryJanice Davidson
But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because I believed you… — Diana Gabaldon
How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to… — Ruta Sepetys
Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it… — Sarah Dessen
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking… — Don DeLillo
Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency… — BrenÃ© Brown
The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other,… — Jose Saramago
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day… — Haruki Murakami
The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose… — Portia de Rossi
The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
By morning, she was raw and sore, and knew walking would be an effort. By morning, she could barely remember what it had been like… — Linda Howard

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