He Stood Quotes
100 quotes by 95 authors
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She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it…
— Melissa Marr
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He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much…
— Dodie Smith
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He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from…
— Joan Bauer
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He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so…
— Mark Helprin
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A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He…
— Markus Zusak
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They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly…
— Neil Gaiman
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And Vishous. . . V was the worst of them. He stood by the door, staring into space. Icy before, he was glacial now, a…
— J R Ward
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Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.…
— Ayn Rand
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She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his…
— Karen Chance
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I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to help me? What will I give you?" He…
— Katie MacAlister
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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He…
— Ray Bradbury
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Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice…
— Sara Shepard
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,†Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally,…
— Sarah Dessen
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But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning…
— Jack London
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