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1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed. — Margaret Atwood
Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention,… — Andrea Camilleri
I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the… — Nicholas Sparks
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have… — Rajneesh
We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people… — Charles Bukowski
The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the… — Audrey Niffenegger
Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what… — Joel Osteen
But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost… — Nicholas Sparks
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in… — Ursula K. Le Guin
She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough… — Marilynne Robinson
Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have… — Ellen Hopkins
whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no… — William Shakespeare
Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a… — Jodi Picoult
Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again. — Cornelia Funke
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… — May Sarton
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter
His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely… — Haruki Murakami
If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill,… — George Carlin
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if… — Lisa Kleypas
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached… — Jeff Lindsay
Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to… — Patricia Briggs
She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree… — Robin McKinley
It was the wife, John thought. And she was giving this tough guy a tongue-lashing. And the man was taking it. "Okay. I love you.… — J R Ward

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