Collected Quotes

229 quotes by 209 authors

Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness. — Karen Russell
Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that weâ€™ve collected all that we are? — Jonathan Evison
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but… — Sue Monk Kidd
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's… — Lois McMaster Bujold
All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you… — Jeanette Winterson
Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those… — Anna Godbersen
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my… — Kate Forsyth
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,… — Marya Hornbacher
Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the… — P.G. Wodehouse
If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and… — Ray Bradbury
I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures… — Helen Oyeyemi
More and more I feel like a letterâ€”deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. — Margaret Atwood
During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Wretched unfair, it is,â€ he remarked. â€œOf the three of us, Iâ€™m the one whoâ€™s always collected the rare and unusual, yet you two managed… — Jeaniene Frost
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis
Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that… — Mary Cantwell
The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove… — Jimmy Carter
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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