Behind Them Quotes
200 Behind Them quotes by 177 unique authors
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Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
— Margaret Atwood
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As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to…
— Kim Edwards
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They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony…
— Douglas Adams
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Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-'…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get…
— Donald Miller
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They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.
— Joseph Conrad
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I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge,…
— Henry Miller
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Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave…
— James Patterson
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sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a…
— Sarah Dessen
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Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small…
— Christopher Isherwood
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The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the…
— David Levithan
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And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)
— Edward Conze
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Looks can’t hide your true identity. It’s the eyes that give you away…the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.
— Vicki Pettersson
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we…
— Alice Walker
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly,…
— Gaston Leroux
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I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the…
— Sarah Dessen
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They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and…
— M.M. Kaye
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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do.…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here."…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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