Boxes Quotes

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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The box is only temporary. — Sylvia Plath
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? — E. M. Forster
Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in… — George Saunders
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form… — Dave Barry
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… — Evelyn Waugh
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in… — Jonathan Kozol
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like… — Sylvia Plath
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood… — Tennessee Williams
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil… — Truman Capote
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm… — Leo Tolstoy
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says… — Cornelia Funke
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who… — J R Ward
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down… — Jack London
Mogi: Greg Parker left the hideout a while ago and bought a large amount of food. He's heading back to the hideout now. And I've… — Tsugumi Ohba
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment,… — Laura Esquivel
Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it. Set in a gold… — Ellen Hopkins
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this… — Lewis Carroll
Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the… — Neil Gaiman

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