Edge Quotes
1418 Edge quotes by 1078 unique authors
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Yes,” I told him. “I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.” He stopped where he was. “What?” I asked, frowning at the…
— Patricia Briggs
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Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure…
— John le Carre
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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden…
— Tom Stoppard
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Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the…
— Sylvia Plath
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A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be…
— Edmond Rostand
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I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry…
— Jack Gantos
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We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge…
— Jonathan Stroud
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When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
— R.L. LaFevers
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That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward…
— Lauren Oliver
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He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped…
— Neil Gaiman
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I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
— Beatrix Potter
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No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our…
— Kami Garcia
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It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself…
— Gretchen Rubin
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...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not…
— Alistair Maclean
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YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.
— Terry Pratchett
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Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run…
— Suzanne Collins
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She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I…
— Cassandra Clare
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It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the…
— Terry Pratchett
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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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I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
— Cate Tiernan
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