Boxes Quotes
1285 quotes by 1069 authors
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Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What…
— Brian Selznick
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You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets, who ran to…
— Kiera Cass
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Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.
— Daniel Handler
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Uriah drops his tray next to me. It is loaded with beef stew and chocolate cake. I stare at the cake pile. “There was cake? 
— Veronica Roth
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I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South,…
— Gail Carson Levine
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I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream…
— Haruki Murakami
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Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a…
— Haruki Murakami
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She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed. - Kaia Skyhawk
— Gena Showalter
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Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an…
— Henry Miller
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A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.
— Charles Manson
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Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.
— Tom Holt
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Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read…
— Gena Showalter
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Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the…
— Robert Penn Warren
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You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and…
— Haruki Murakami
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I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to…
— Naomi Novik
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Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.
— Douglas Preston
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