Barely Quotes
694 quotes by 540 authors
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And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I…
— Sarah Dessen
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[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'... 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not…
— John Flanagan
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I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies…
— Jeaniene Frost
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As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice.…
— Julia Quinn
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Moving between her thighs, he stretched out above her, then thrust into her. Once. Because, as he did everything, he acted without hesitation or apology…
— Sandra Brown
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I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.
— David Levithan
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I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and…
— Karen Chance
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till…
— Haruki Murakami
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I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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My pulse whooshed in my ears so fast I could barely hear myself speak. “I only have—†“Two days.†He squeezed my hand. “So what?…
— Rachel Vincent
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in…
— Jane Austen
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When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.†“There are people who…
— Libba Bray
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My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.
— Steven Wright
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Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—†“Desire.†A barely-there smile.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I’m so overwhelmed.†– Nick “Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times.…
— Abbi Glines
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By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I…
— Steve Erickson
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She crawled,†Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled…
— Patricia Briggs
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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know…
— Stephen King
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