Best Cracked Lines
244 Cracked quotes by 193 unique authors
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Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform...As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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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Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Soooo," Arriane said. "Now you've met Randy." "I thought his name was Cam." "We're not talking about him," Arriane said quickly. "I mean the she-man…
— Lauren Kate
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the rain is coming. little sister, the night broke. the thunder cracked my brain finally. the rain is coming, i promise you. i didn’t mean…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those…
— Linda Lael Miller
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This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when…
— Elizabeth Scott
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I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by Wednesday no part…
— Judith Viorst
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That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I let her through. She checked Derek's pulse and his breathing, saying both seemed okay, then leaned down to his face. "Nothing weird on his…
— Kelley Armstrong
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What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.
— Howard Pyle
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Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice…
— Rick Riordan
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published…
— Anne Lamott
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Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip…
— Alyson Noel
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V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries…
— J R Ward
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How are you?" "Perfectly fine," he said. "Are your ribs broken?" "Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully." "Did this settle anything?" "It…
— Ilona Andrews
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…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it…
— Joyce Meyer
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If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.
— Rachel Maddow
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You two are cracked," Tod snapped. My smile widened. "Says the undead man in love with the soulless pop star.
— Rachel Vincent
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Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow…
— Jennifer Estep
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Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?"…
— Rick Riordan
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It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry…
— Marguerite Duras
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