Dropped Quotes
698 quotes by 524 authors
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Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think…
— Stephen King
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Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
— Haruki Murakami
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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The storm dropped a house on her head.
— Gregory Maguire
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She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she…
— J D Salinger
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They…
— George Carlin
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And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered…
— Jay Asher
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Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the…
— Hermann Hesse
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It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You…
— Richelle Mead
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Why? Why did you do this to me?" "He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too." "That's…
— Julie Garwood
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All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping…
— John Fowles
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As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up…
— Kristin Cashore
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Percy!†he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and…
— Rick Riordan
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Don't you have class today? (Kyrian) Boy, I'm a backwoods Cajun, I ain't never got no class, cher. (Nick) (He cleared his throat and dropped…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'm magnetic," she whispered, half awed and half horrified. "I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff," I said in disbelief. Fang dropped…
— James Patterson
Who Wrote These Dropped Quotes
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