Handed Quotes
537 Handed quotes by 464 unique authors
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have…
— Cory Doctorow
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We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the…
— Maureen Johnson
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As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan.…
— Ilona Andrews
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No empty handed man can lure a bird
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from…
— Mitch Albom
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Percy: The Heka-what? Annabeth: The Hundred-Handed Ones. They called them that because... well, they had a hundred hands. They were the elder brothers of the…
— Rick Riordan
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Don’t ask me any more questions, Keller. I’m just going to lie to you and I’d rather not have the stress of trying to remember…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,…
— John Pilger
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Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that…
— Jim C. Hines
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My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems…
— J D Salinger
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This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What…
— David Nicholls
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I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to…
— P. C. Cast
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As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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(His heart clenched as she made a kissing noise to him then handed the phone back to Vane. Gods, how he loved that woman.) Ahh,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything…
— Maria V. Snyder
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be…
— Jane Austen
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She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling…
— Ilona Andrews
Who Wrote These Handed Quotes
464 authors contributed a total of 537 Handed Quotes, led by these top contributors: