Closed Quotes
1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors
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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape,…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.
— Charles Portis
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If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have…
— Isaac Asimov
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He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of…
— Stephen King
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I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet," Annabelle…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;
— John Keats
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Shut up," Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. "I don't think you're stupid."…
— Lauren Kate
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I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it.…
— Ruta Sepetys
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p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a…
— Ayn Rand
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I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
— Christopher Nolan
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She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward…
— Cassandra Clare
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You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know all there was…
— Suzanne Collins
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How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he…
— Norton Juster
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They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often…
— Alice Hoffman
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There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for…
— Wayne Thomas Batson
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Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall…
— Pablo Neruda
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Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know…
— Jodi Picoult
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Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid,…
— Octavia Butler
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At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it…
— Khaled Hosseini
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