Dangling Quotes
57 quotes by 52 authors
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I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even…
— Graham Greene
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I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
— Douglas Coupland
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We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling…
— Rick Riordan
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They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted…
— Neal Stephenson
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Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words…
— Dr. Seuss
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People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it…
— Cynthia Lord
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Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.
— Francesca Lia Block
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She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward…
— Cassandra Clare
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So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare…
— Jim Butcher
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I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films. But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my route out onto…
— Daniel Handler
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I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and…
— Yukio Mishima
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Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in…
— Charles de Lint
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Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch…
— Ally Carter
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It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their…
— Melina Marchetta
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Hello, Harry!†she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,†said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?†she asked brightly. “How did you know…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between…
— Louise Erdrich
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In midair, dangling lost above the world.
— Sarah Dessen
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The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided…
— Glen Duncan
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I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have…
— Jacqueline Carey
Who Wrote These Dangling Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 57 Dangling Quotes, led by these top contributors: