Gathered Quotes
314 Gathered quotes by 268 unique authors
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Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.
— Celia Rees
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He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a…
— Janet Fitch
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She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many…
— Charles Dickens
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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch…
— Leonard Cohen
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When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be…
— Melina Marchetta
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Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know…
— Ann Brashares
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Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,…
— Paulo Coelho
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And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
— Mary Oliver
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When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place…
— Charles Dickens
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It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your…
— Andy Andrews
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said. "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. She spoke to the bubbles gathered on…
— Kristin Cashore
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I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction."…
— Lisa McMann
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Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought…
— Arundhati Roy
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In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring…
— Markus Zusak
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He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into…
— Derek Landy
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Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell…
— Rick Riordan
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But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic…
— Harper Lee
Who Wrote These Gathered Quotes
268 authors contributed a total of 314 Gathered Quotes, led by these top contributors: