Gate Quotes
409 quotes by 313 authors
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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was…
— David Nicholls
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If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall…
— Eloisa James
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There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside.…
— Markus Zusak
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
— Stephen Covey
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There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every…
— Annie Besant
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…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your ownâ€; and it struck me, as my automaton…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything…
— Robert Fulghum
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She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to…
— Cassandra Clare
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Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?
— Louise Rennison
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Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned…
— Cassandra Clare
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It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
— Lois Lowry
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For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied.…
— Garth Nix
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I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual…
— Anne Sexton
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A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy’s Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the…
— Lynn Flewelling
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She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back…
— Eoin Colfer
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I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get…
— Kiersten White
Who Wrote These Gate Quotes
313 authors contributed a total of 409 Gate Quotes, led by these top contributors: