Closes Quotes
236 quotes by 191 authors
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Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard,…
— Jodi Picoult
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I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath,…
— Nick Cave
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Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even…
— Haruki Murakami
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Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it…
— Khaled Hosseini
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There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
— Unknown Author
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Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.
— Stephen King
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You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't…
— Mitch Albom
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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or…
— David Levithan
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Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants…
— Selma Lagerlöf
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When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't…
— Diana Gabaldon
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When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.
— Jeannette Walls
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
— Ellen Hopkins
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Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired…
— Lauren Oliver
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A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And…
— Leo Tolstoy
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For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more…
— Paul Auster
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As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Yeah. Rose." Jill sighed and stared vacantly ahead. "She's all he sees when he closes his eyes. Flashing dark eyes and a body full of…
— Richelle Mead
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Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a…
— Charlaine Harris
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Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O"…
— Gabrielle Zevin
Who Wrote These Closes Quotes
191 authors contributed a total of 236 Closes Quotes, led by these top contributors: