Dry Quotes

1049 Dry quotes by 802 unique authors

On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines… — Elizabeth von Arnim
Eloiseis getting married as well.” “Eloise?” Michael asked with some surprise. “Was she even being courted by anyone?” “No,” Francesca said, quickly flipping to the… — Julia Quinn
Phillip looked to Eloise. "Perhaps introductions are in order?" "Oh," Eloise said, gulping. "Yes, of course. These are my brothers." "I'd gathered," he said, his… — Julia Quinn
I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to… — Sarah Dessen
I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this… — Tina Fey
He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he… — Sarah Dessen
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make… — Bram Stoker
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
If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in your rooms and… — Judith McNaught
I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am… — Paulo Coelho
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. — Jeremy Bentham
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let… — Ann Voskamp
It's me, love," he said softly. "Everything's all right." Daisy managed to whisper through dry lips. "If you're a ghost...I hope you haunt me forever."… — Lisa Kleypas
The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you… — Anais Nin
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the… — Saul Bellow
You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry. — Janice Galloway
The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient… — Lauren Oliver
You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless,… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. — Emma Donoghue
And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail… — Cassandra Clare
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way… — Walter Benjamin
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. — Kenneth Oppel
Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my… — William Shakespeare

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