Figures Quotes

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Iâ€™d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but Iâ€™d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not. — Jeaniene Frost
Bones didnâ€™t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasnâ€™t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by… — Jeaniene Frost
Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time. " I turned and met the amused eyes of Christian Ozera, a onetime annoyance… — Richelle Mead
How'd you communicate?" "Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out a way in… — Kelley Armstrong
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure. — Nicholas Sparks
If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim — Jeannette Walls
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the… — Charles Dickens
I mean itâ€™s purposeful, even if we donâ€™t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave… — Deb Caletti
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live… — Barbara Kingsolver
If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not… — Greg Graffin
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. — Salman Rushdie
So, tomorrow, Iâ€™m leaving. And Iâ€™m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. Iâ€™m going to do what I want to do.… — Stephen Chbosky
Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to… — Gordon Korman
When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties… — Fernando Pessoa
What were you dreaming about?" "You." He twisted a lock of her hair around his finger. "I always dream about you." "Oh, yeah? Because I… — Cassandra Clare
Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to… — Henry Rollins
How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence… — David Levithan
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling… — Louisa May Alcott
Thereâ€™s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can… — Michael Jackson

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