Blown Quotes
441 quotes by 375 authors
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A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping…
— Margaret Mitchell
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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning…
— Ray Bradbury
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Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they were in perfect…
— Cassandra Clare
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A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
— James M. Barrie
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We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are…
— Muhammad Asad
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[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who…
— Rick Riordan
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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living…
— Virginia Woolf
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I should've blown more stuff up." -Coach Gleeson Hedge
— Rick Riordan
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My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be…
— Haruki Murakami
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Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
— Katherine Paterson
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I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.
— Lauren Oliver
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He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…†she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles…
— George R. R. Martin
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
— Ernest Hemingway
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And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near,…
— James Agee
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Now i no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.
— Alice Munro
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I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the…
— Khaled Hosseini
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My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy nights were the…
— Neil Gaiman
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Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown…
— Stephen King
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