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182 Elbows quotes by 167 unique authors
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After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next…
— Markus Zusak
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger…
— Richard Wright
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
— Henry James
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position;…
— E. M. Forster
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I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil…
— Sara Gruen
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Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed…
— Nicole Krauss
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I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the…
— Haruki Murakami
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He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject…
— Emily Bronte
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A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows…
— Jodi Picoult
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And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard…
— George Monbiot
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Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small…
— Christopher Isherwood
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You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I thought I was going to die there, alone. I thought I would never see you again." He seemed to shake off the memory and…
— Terry Goodkind
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Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights."…
— Claudia Gray
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I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
— Thomas Harris
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I'm not supposed to date you, Jenny." "That's what you said before." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "I didn't think this was…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar…
— Tennessee Williams
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And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the…
— Tim Wise
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I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break…
— James Patterson
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