Couldn Quotes

410 Couldn quotes by 275 unique authors

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A… — Graham Greene
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed… — Graham Greene
Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I… — Cecelia Ahern
Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an… — Ilona Andrews
I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine… — Jay Asher
Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because he was in… — Nicole Krauss
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part… — Sarah Dessen
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But… — Dorothy L. Sayers
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once,… — Karen Russell
I didn’t want or expect this. But I couldn’t resist you. — Maria V. Snyder
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this… — Nalini Singh
Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which. — Sarah MacLean
Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it… — Rob Thurman
I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I… — Megan Hart
• The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn’t bear not to defend it and the… — Jennifer Crusie
There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped… — Alexandra Adornetto
There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture. — Julia Quinn
It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations… — Julia Quinn
Pritkin muttered something that sounded fairly vicious. “My clothes are warded! Even if I wished to accede to your demand, it would not work on… — Karen Chance
Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater… — Jeaniene Frost
Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might… — Jeaniene Frost
If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity.… — Boyd Rice
William: What do you think of the fact that your home has been invaded by women? Maddox: I couldn’t be more pleased, as long as… — Gena Showalter
Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the… — Becca Fitzpatrick
You’re crowding me. I need— room.”... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was… — Becca Fitzpatrick

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