Ended Quotes
1298 Ended quotes by 1057 unique authors
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He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended…
— J R Ward
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She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the…
— John Green
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It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're…
— Mike Birbiglia
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Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no…
— Michael Grant
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I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them…
— Patricia Briggs
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And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a…
— Gustave Flaubert
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All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game…
— Hugh Nibley
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The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was…
— Tim Burton
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You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that…
— Isak Dinesen
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So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you…
— Suzanne Collins
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I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog…
— Isaac Marion
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The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and…
— Thomas Mann
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When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I…
— Veronica Roth
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She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is…
— Nick Hornby
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maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've…
— Candace Bushnell
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What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from…
— Augusten Burroughs
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At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes,…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death…
— Ann Aguirre
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An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything…
— Tove Jansson
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The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
— Stephen King
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There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor…
— Franny Billingsley
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