Carefully Quotes
997 Carefully quotes by 813 unique authors
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That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite…
— Val McDermid
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The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own…
— H.G. Wells
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The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we…
— Julian Barnes
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How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
— Erin Morgenstern
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It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling…
— Jeff Lindsay
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I began to cry. Barrons looked horrified. "Stop that immediately, Ms. Lane." "I can't." I sniffeled into my cup pf cocoa so he couldn't see…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black…
— Kim Harrison
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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors…
— Kate Morton
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Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you…
— Anne Ursu
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Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San…
— Michael Scott
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Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had gotten to the…
— Veronica Roth
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The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
— Lisa Unger
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Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully…
— Kristin Cashore
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As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made…
— Scott Lynch
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She thumped him again. He looked startled, then caught her flying fist in his hand and gently pried her fingers open. Very carefully he pressed…
— Christine Feehan
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The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
— Haruki Murakami
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The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be…
— Etgar Keret
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But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I…
— Bernard Cornwell
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Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of…
— David Foster Wallace
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Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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He then kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and…
— Eva Ibbotson
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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent,…
— Og Mandino
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