Closed Quotes

1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the… — Sarah Dessen
Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to… — William Goldman
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are… — Madeleine L'Engle
Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride… — Megan Whalen Turner
The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately… — Dan Brown
Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies… — Anthony Burgess
...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch. It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred… — J R Ward
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for… — Pearl S. Buck
I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism. — Iain Banks
. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David… — John Connolly
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In… — Haruki Murakami
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and… — R A Salvatore
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? — Lord Byron
Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was… — Richard Brautigan
Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him,… — Christopher Pike
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the… — Gaston Bachelard
Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up… — Chuck Palahniuk
And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the… — Jeaniene Frost
The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering… — Cassandra Clare
Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd… — Cassandra Clare
And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. — Stephen Chbosky
Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to… — Jodi Picoult
I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like. — Peter Cameron

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