Edges Quotes
301 Edges quotes by 254 unique authors
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I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather…
— Anne Fadiman
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Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for…
— Laini Taylor
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It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing…
— Khaled Hosseini
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There are no edges to my loving now.
— Unknown Author
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The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still…
— Neil Gaiman
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A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But…
— Lewis Buzbee
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of.…
— Anne Tyler
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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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YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i…
— Clint Catalyst
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Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion was muting the…
— Cassandra Clare
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Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived…
— Terry Pratchett
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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of…
— David Malouf
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After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.
— Rachel Joyce
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The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag…
— Laura Moriarty
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At first I wasn’t all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which was a huge point in his favor.” “Absolutely. I…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be…
— Rick Bragg
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If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where…
— Sebastian Faulks
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Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on…
— Tana French
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The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress…
— Terry Pratchett
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Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any…
— Tana French
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If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of…
— Charles Bukowski
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Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping…
— Tom Stoppard
Who Wrote These Edges Quotes
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