Fingernails Quotes
87 quotes by 80 authors
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Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You…
— John Fante
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Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring…
— Markus Zusak
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Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her…
— Rachel Caine
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Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar.…
— Jodi Picoult
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As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.
— Jodi Picoult
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Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at…
— L.A. Weatherly
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I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
— Charlaine Harris
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It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like…
— Charles Bukowski
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Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child,"…
— Gordon Korman
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Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.
— Angela Carter
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I’m so overwhelmed.†– Nick “Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They didn't take this."…
— Cynthia Leitich Smith
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How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She…
— Neil Gaiman
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You’re too visible, Albert,†Hadrian explained. “Can’t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your eyelids or pull…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the…
— Rob Bell
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He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the…
— Anthony Marra
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Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.†I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.†There was another pause. . . “That is the…
— Patricia Briggs
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I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty…
— Milan Kundera
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I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I…
— Melissa Marr
Who Wrote These Fingernails Quotes
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