Finally Quotes
3507 quotes by 2328 authors
-
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into…
— Azar Nafisi
-
Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.
— Kelley Armstrong
-
It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After…
— Natalie Goldberg
-
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie…
— Sue Monk Kidd
-
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road.…
— John Piper
-
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
— Joan Didion
-
Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep…
— J. Maarten Troost
-
... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so…
— John Kennedy Toole
-
It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So…
— Neal Shusterman
-
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
-
There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do…
— Sue Monk Kidd
-
We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.
— Adam Rex
-
Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says…
— Jen Lancaster
-
I say we try it,' says Peeta. 'Katniss is right.' Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go forward without her.…
— Suzanne Collins
-
He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.
— Nicholas Sparks
-
Kaiaphas. I see you finally made some friends. You must have learned to use a toothbrush at last. You know it’s the whole up and…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You upset all the…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
-
I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally…
— David Levithan
-
[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
-
When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and…
— Sara Gruen
Who Wrote These Finally Quotes
2,328 authors contributed a total of 3,507 Finally Quotes, led by these top contributors: