Crossed Quotes
475 Crossed quotes by 389 unique authors
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The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. I know I am.
— Suzanne Collins
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You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.
— Barry Lyga
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Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't want to have…
— Cassandra Clare
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I have a plan.” He groaned. “I was afraid of that.” “My plans are not terrible.” “Isabelle’s plans are terrible.” He pointed a finger at…
— Cassandra Clare
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In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed…
— Lynne Truss
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Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen,” Harriet said. “There’s an evil queen?” Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. “Of course,” Harriet replied.…
— Julia Quinn
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch…
— Beryl Markham
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Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town…
— Tom Petty
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I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all…
— Jane Yolen
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Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the…
— Susanna Kaysen
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He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio…
— Richelle Mead
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I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled…
— Dave Eggers
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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
— David Mitchell
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A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he…
— Leo Tolstoy
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And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
— Kathryn Stockett
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But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and…
— Paullina Simons
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Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross...
— John Green
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Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.…
— George Packer
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Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue…
— Ilona Andrews
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I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because…
— Sherwood Anderson
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Dani, Dani, Dani." I flinch. I've never heard anyone say my name so gently. It creeps me all kinds of out. He's towering over me,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart from the crowd,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green…
— Stephen King
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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of…
— Rod Serling
Who Wrote These Crossed Quotes
389 authors contributed a total of 475 Crossed Quotes, led by these top contributors: