Fixed Quotes
994 quotes by 807 authors
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He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her…
— Nalini Singh
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Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
— Italo Calvino
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What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are…
— Daniel Handler
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From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it…
— Neal Shusterman
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Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to…
— Rachel Caine
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Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are…
— Tom Robbins
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Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold…
— Dylan Thomas
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Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered,…
— Haruki Murakami
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I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the…
— Robin Hobb
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I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I…
— Cormac McCarthy
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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and…
— Oscar Wilde
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He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. "Would you please tell me what you're…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared…
— Howard Zinn
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She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they…
— David Gemmell
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We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to…
— Pema Chodron
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There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
— Iris Murdoch
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At…
— Thomas Wolfe
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But…
— Terry Brooks
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Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...
— James Dashner
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