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317 quotes by 270 authors

she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didnâ€™t breathe, God would grant her another day — Khaled Hosseini
But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined… — Jodi Picoult
But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "Theyâ€™re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,â€ I said, But itâ€™s not true. A mockingbird is… — Suzanne Collins
Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers. — Bill O'Reilly
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two,… — Sylvia Plath
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that… — Joanne Greenberg
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library… — Italo Calvino
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent… — Shirley Jackson
I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I… — Lee Child
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle… — Hans Christian Andersen
We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted… — Dalai Lama
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those… — Yann Martel
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world… — Terence McKenna
Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the… — Robert James Waller
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a… — Sara Zarr
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done,… — Jeannette Walls
But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of… — A A Milne
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers… — Robert Jordan
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and… — Rob Sheffield
They hadnâ€™t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in… — Suzanne Collins

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