Finished Quotes
1493 Finished quotes by 1163 unique authors
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I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.
— Siegfried Sassoon
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I…
— Stephen Chbosky
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some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished.…
— Jennifer Egan
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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house…
— Jennifer Egan
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Um…” Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database…
— Ally Carter
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In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust…
— Aravind Adiga
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And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd…
— Melina Marchetta
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She keeps asking me where we're going." "Yeah," another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. "Girls do that. They've always…
— Rachel Caine
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This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg…
— Maureen Johnson
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But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall .…
— Melissa Marr
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One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the…
— Paulo Coelho
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The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that…
— James M. Barrie
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Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.”…
— Sarah Dessen
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Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?” he asked with heavy irony. “Bite…
— Jeaniene Frost
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When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this…
— Malcolm X
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He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a…
— Julia Quinn
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There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."…
— Rick Riordan
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Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the…
— Steven Pressfield
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Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin,…
— David Mitchell
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I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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