Explained Quotes
581 quotes by 491 authors
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Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male…
— Gordon Korman
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Dan instantly recognized the angry scratch that stretched from the corner of Ian's eye all the way along the olive skin to his chin. "Have…
— Gordon Korman
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The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.
— Anthony Horowitz
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It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.' Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant when it came…
— John Flanagan
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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat…
— Charlie Higson
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Oh noes, kitteh haz major angriez!†I said. I turned around to share a laugh with my companions and found them glaring at me. “What? 
— Kevin Hearne
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She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she…
— Larissa Ione
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When I talked to him earlier, he said he had to work tonight,†Peter explained, “but that we should go ahead and draw for him. 
— Richelle Mead
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The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion…
— Jack Weatherford
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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Ah, Lady Maccon, how lovely. I did wonder when you would track us down.†“I was unavoidably delayed by husbands and Ivys,†explained Alexia. “These…
— Gail Carriger
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Every man has a weakness!†he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.†“Every man?†“Yes,†he answered emphatically. ... “What is your weakness,…
— Julie Garwood
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The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he…
— Neil Gaiman
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Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
— Elif Safak
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My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
— Haruki Murakami
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I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode…
— Larry McMurtry
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm…
— Julian Barnes
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