Edge Quotes
1418 Edge quotes by 1078 unique authors
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Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward…
— Dorianne Laux
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I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon…
— John Piper
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Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking…
— Tim Winton
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If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of…
— Tori Amos
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling…
— Jodi Picoult
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
— Raymond Chandler
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The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed…
— Kim Harrison
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Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off…
— Jodi Picoult
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The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the…
— Terry Pratchett
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The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and…
— Terry Pratchett
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge.…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow…
— Terry Pratchett
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I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're…
— Lauren Oliver
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I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is…
— Suzanne Collins
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He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She…
— Julia Quinn
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For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against…
— Theodore Roethke
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Why you in a dark hole, Astrid? Did you fall? (Simi) We’re hiding Simi. (Astrid) Hiding? From what? (Simi) Thanatos. (Astrid) Pfft. Why you hiding…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself."…
— Rick Riordan
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There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
— Rachel Carson
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The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard…
— Erin Hunter
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
— Guillermo del Toro
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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