Escaped Quotes
256 Escaped quotes by 214 unique authors
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Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces…
— Arundhati Roy
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Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
— Mark Twain
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From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.…
— Sherwood Anderson
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,…
— Anne Fadiman
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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
— Virginia Woolf
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The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early,…
— George MacDonald
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Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they…
— James Joyce
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People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the…
— D. A. Carson
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Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
— Gary Paulsen
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From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its…
— Alberto Manguel
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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability…
— Toni Morrison
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...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning…
— Dennis Lehane
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
— E. M. Forster
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who Wrote These Escaped Quotes
214 authors contributed a total of 256 Escaped Quotes, led by these top contributors: