Closed Quotes

1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw. — Ellen Hopkins
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long… — Haruki Murakami
I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why… — Megan Whalen Turner
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can… — Paulo Coelho
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. — Stephen King
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that… — Alberto Manguel
You and me?” I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.” “That’s what you think,” Chaz says, tugging on… — Meg Cabot
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked… — Caroline Stevermer
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. — Janet Fitch
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… — E. M. Forster
Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the… — Donita K. Paul
Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor… — Marguerite Duras
I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I… — Marguerite Duras
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought,… — Christopher Paolini
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between… — Michael Ondaatje
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a… — Nick Hornby
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her… — Denis Johnson
Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out. — Tucker Max
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
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. — Charles Baudelaire
She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it… — Melissa Marr
All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark… — Arthur Rimbaud

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