Finished Quotes
1493 Finished quotes by 1163 unique authors
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when…
— Fay Weldon
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And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.
— George R. R. Martin
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You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't…
— Elif Safak
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For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
— Piers Anthony
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Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very…
— Anne Rice
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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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