Came Back Quotes

368 Came Back quotes by 320 unique authors

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… — Charlotte Bronte
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some… — John Cage
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it… — Virginia Woolf
...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with… — Jonathan Safran Foer
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. — Victor Hugo
I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures… — Anne Rice
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you. — Ernest Rutherford
When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside… — Jodi Picoult
When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech… — John Steinbeck
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead. — David Weber
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came… — Evelyn Waugh
And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night… — Jennifer Weiner
Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT… — Terry Pratchett
But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance. — Sarah Dessen
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came… — Alice Sebold
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before… — Margaret Mitchell
What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. — Neil Gaiman
There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because… — Jandy Nelson
And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back… — David Wong
But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper,"… — Lewis Carroll
You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next… — Jodi Picoult

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