Bottom Quotes
1845 quotes by 1453 authors
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Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This…
— J.A. Konrath
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
— Ellen Meloy
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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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Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK…
— Haruki Murakami
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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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Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and…
— Markus Zusak
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And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave…
— William Faulkner
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A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.
— Donald Ray Pollock
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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is…
— Lauren Oliver
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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
— Franz Kafka
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Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
— Heather Brewer
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This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter…
— Anna Akhmatova
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I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew…
— Maria V. Snyder
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll…
— S E Hinton
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Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed…
— Hilary McKay
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Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they…
— Hilary McKay
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page:…
— Alan Bennett
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When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?†he said. “What else can the young…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
— H P Lovecraft
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