He Used Quotes
239 quotes by 220 authors
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DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.
— Suzanne Brockmann
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I can make some calls. There is a guy. Dagfinn Heyerdahl. He used to be with Norse Heritage Foundation." Norse Heritage Foundation wasn't so much…
— Ilona Andrews
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He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how…
— Alfred Adler
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Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.
— Alexandra Potter
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My feet are killing me." "I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used…
— Clive Barker
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In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself…
— Margaret Atwood
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He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if…
— Karen Armstrong
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... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached…
— Shannon Hale
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We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re…
— Ken Follett
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow…
— Ann Patchett
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
— Yann Martel
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He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is…
— Emma Forrest
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You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he…
— Chris Colfer
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Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door,…
— Janet Frame
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