Corner Quotes
1346 quotes by 1109 authors
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Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared;…
— Barbara Mertz
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The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous…
— Ilona Andrews
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But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and…
— Ruskin Bond
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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
— Dorothy Parker
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I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I…
— Douglas Coupland
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So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact,…
— Holly Black
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It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in…
— Stephen King
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On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk…
— John Connolly
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to…
— Walter de La Mare
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The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the…
— Garth Stein
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All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the…
— Nicole Krauss
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Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
— James Lee Burke
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Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite…
— Julia Quinn
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Um, Faythe?†Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first official piece of…
— Rachel Vincent
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Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of…
— Douglas Adams
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The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's…
— Keith Ablow
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One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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