Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1807 authors
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It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a…
— Sophie Scholl
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Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both…
— Lauren Willig
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You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that." And it was memories like that that…
— Richelle Mead
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[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing…
— Obert Skye
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Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the…
— Salman Rushdie
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He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
— Melina Marchetta
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The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my…
— Kim Harrison
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I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I don’t play…
— Rick Riordan
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A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a…
— Ariana Franklin
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You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships…
— James Joyce
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It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am…
— Richard G. Scott
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All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom…
— Hermann Hesse
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A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog,…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the…
— Meg Rosoff
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I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.
— Stephenie Meyer
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He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light…
— Francoise Sagan
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There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
— Neil Gaiman
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Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded,"…
— Rachel Caine
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