Burst Quotes

502 Burst quotes by 414 unique authors

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends… — Tom Robbins
Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at… — C.S. Lewis
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both… — Victor Hugo
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down… — Dorianne Laux
Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we… — Elizabeth Berg
The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early,… — George MacDonald
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to… — Terry Goodkind
Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing… — Chris Wooding
Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry… — Harper Lee
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying. — Wilkie Collins
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. — James Joyce
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,… — Ray Bradbury
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.… — C.S. Lewis
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… — C.S. Lewis
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir
These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing… — Leo Tolstoy
The hour that burst the spirit's sleep... — Saul Bellow
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a… — Robert Frost
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first… — Erich Maria Remarque
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,… — Denis Johnson
So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both:… — Neal Shusterman
Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. — Scott Westerfeld
Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each… — James Patterson
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to… — Andrew Harvey

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