Gently Quotes
522 quotes by 400 authors
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The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the…
— William Goldman
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I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of…
— Markus Zusak
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Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah…
— Os Guinness
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While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me.It was just about close to heaven i'll…
— James Patterson
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I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
— Anatole France
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But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how…
— Jamie Ford
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,†he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be…
— Norton Juster
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My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve.…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
— Gerald Durrell
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Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
— Ray Bradbury
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In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake…
— Ray Bradbury
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Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth.…
— Patrick Ness
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Home, Ms. Lane?†His deep voice was gently amused. “I have to call it something,†I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed…
— Jim Butcher
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I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
— Albert Camus
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No," Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face toward mine, our foreheads nearly touching. "It won't happen to you. You're too strong. You'll fight it,…
— Richelle Mead
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It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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