Floated Quotes
80 quotes by 72 authors
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Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
— Anne Lamott
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The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit…
— Robin McKinley
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Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light and a whooshing…
— Cassandra Clare
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As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting me go, leaving me to…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the…
— Anne Carson
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Goddess†he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.†Will I see you again?†Just her voice now, young and old at the same…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It sort of floated toward me,†said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then — it just…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
— Franz Kafka
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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts,…
— Charles Dickens
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The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist,…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Ooh, big day in town for our park warden,†I said. “They’re even making you wear the uniform. Hayley’s mom will be happy. She thinks…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so…
— Doris Lessing
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He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and…
— David Foster Wallace
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At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated…
— John Green
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All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the…
— Milan Kundera
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
— Mary Oliver
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No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to…
— John Keats
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Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under…
— Lauren Oliver
Who Wrote These Floated Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 80 Floated Quotes, led by these top contributors: