Drawer Quotes

137 quotes by 124 authors

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. — Emily Dickinson
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. — Paulo Coelho
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can… — Kevin Brooks
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick. — Truman Capote
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been… — Soren Kierkegaard
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered… — Orson Scott Card
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery… — Franz Wright
The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the… — Miriam Toews
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by… — A. Lee Martinez
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics… — Kurt Vonnegut
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor. — Emily Dickinson
I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder. — Michael Jackson
But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing… — Jodi Picoult
I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my… — Kate Atkinson
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. — Graham Greene
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them… — Fernando Pessoa

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