Folds Quotes
77 quotes by 71 authors
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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
— Victor Hugo
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No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was…
— Mark Strand
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The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early,…
— George MacDonald
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Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if…
— Rick Riordan
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They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to…
— Christopher Paolini
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It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity…
— Mark Twain
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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
— Khalil Gibran
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The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them.…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were…
— Reif Larsen
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luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the…
— David Levithan
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Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you…
— Georgette Heyer
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She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and…
— Shannon Hale
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
— Siri Hustvedt
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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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Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The…
— Unknown Author
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