Closed Quotes
1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors
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Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winter's cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two of them stared…
— Obert Skye
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While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll…
— James Patterson
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I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up…
— David Benioff
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any…
— Abraham Lincoln
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And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the…
— Amy Tan
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That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And…
— Amy Tan
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For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now…
— Amy Tan
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I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
— Bernard Beckett
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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book…
— Haruki Murakami
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My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal…
— Bram Stoker
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They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
— Ken Kesey
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That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.…
— Jodi Picoult
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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion --…
— Johnny Cash
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The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. "I must have your promise, Coach,…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
— Pope John Paul II
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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony…
— Douglas Adams
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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back…
— Isabel Allende
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Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our…
— Herman Melville
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What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will…
— Tom Wolfe
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You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past. He's…
— Alyson Noel
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I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I can't…
— Paullina Simons
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I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept…
— Sarah Dessen
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