Explained Quotes

581 quotes by 491 authors

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to… — Robert Hughes
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents… — Augusten Burroughs
The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult… — Lisa Kleypas
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. — Leo Tolstoy
My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.'… — Patricia Briggs
Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree,… — Patrick Rothfuss
Lucky Charms?â€ I asked. â€œMagically delicious,â€ he explained. â€œRequisite for any sort of building project.â€ I shook my head, still amazed at how he had… — Richelle Mead
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have… — Francoise Sagan
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the… — Norton Juster
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew… — Ilona Andrews
All you have to do is wait,â€ I explained. â€œSit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just… — Haruki Murakami
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. — Paulo Coelho
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert
So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,… — Cornelia Funke
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, â€˜Who is Tinker Bell?â€™ â€˜O Peter,â€™ she said,… — James M. Barrie
What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he… — Diana Gabaldon
We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,â€ Leo retorted. â€œAfter that, he said he needed… — Lisa Kleypas
I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that… — Jodi Picoult
Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that… — Eva Ibbotson

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