Formed Quotes
849 Formed quotes by 682 unique authors
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I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with…
— Lorrie Moore
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…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,…
— Virginia Woolf
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I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
— Dante Alighieri
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As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of…
— Lisa Kleypas
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But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual…
— Augusten Burroughs
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He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker…
— Jude Deveraux
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Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to…
— Gail Carriger
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All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly…
— Sean Covey
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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
— Alice Hoffman
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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or…
— Wendell Berry
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Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle.…
— Ilona Andrews
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The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
— Sylvia Plath
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The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their…
— Austin Osman Spare
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Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your…
— Suzanne Collins
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[Qhuinn looking a Blay] A tear escaped from that eye . Welling up along the lower lid, it coalesced at the far corner, formed a…
— J R Ward
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We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the…
— Gabriela Mistral
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There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a…
— Rachel Caine
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever…
— Rachel Cohn
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We are formed by what we desire
— John Irving
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How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness…
— Galen Beckett
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by…
— Orhan Pamuk
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