Closed Quotes
1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors
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Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of…
— George R. R. Martin
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She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the…
— John Green
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
— Lord Byron
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
— Annie Dillard
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His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward…
— Jay Asher
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I almost had her." Curran nodded. "I heard. And you could've taken her, too." My voice came out flat. "Rub it in, why don't you."…
— Ilona Andrews
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And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The…
— Patrick Süskind
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... But I'm annoying you to no purpose with my arguments. A person whose house is only open on the west can't see the sun…
— Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had…
— Jane Austen
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Yes,” I told him. “I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.” He stopped where he was. “What?” I asked, frowning at the…
— Patricia Briggs
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Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after…
— Jana Oliver
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I turned around slowly, and looked up at him. He stiffened and sucked in a shallow breath. After a moment, he touched my cheek. "Such…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of…
— Kiersten White
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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,…
— Walter Mosley
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Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens…
— Lauren Oliver
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Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips…
— Holly Black
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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming…
— Virginia Woolf
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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for…
— Oscar Wilde
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I should go. Stewart’s waitin’ for me. Says he wants to teach me how to use a sword properly.’ Riley hooted. ‘Can I watch? This…
— Jana Oliver
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I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting…
— Kami Garcia
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her…
— Victor Hugo
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He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid…
— Suzanne Collins
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Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after…
— Derek Landy
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it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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