Barely Quotes
694 quotes by 540 authors
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It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well,…
— Veronica Roth
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This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal.…
— Laini Taylor
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Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and…
— Dylan Moran
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Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park,…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?' 'Don't you trust me?' 'Trust you? I barely know you.' Vittoria frowned. 'And…
— Dan Brown
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You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir.…
— Jessica Day George
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I reached over and squeezed Curran’s hand. “Come on, you, me, a platter of barely seared meat, it will be great. If we see the…
— Ilona Andrews
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Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and…
— Paula McLain
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I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling…
— Patrick Ness
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Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands.…
— Diana Gabaldon
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My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It…
— Neil Gaiman
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Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens…
— Lauren Oliver
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But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark…
— Lauren Oliver
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I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.
— Lauren Oliver
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How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.
— Amanda Hocking
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You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one…
— Kiersten White
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What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His…
— Lauren Oliver
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