Held Quotes

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Ranger clicked his penlight on. "Hang onto me if you can't see." I curled my hand into the back of his cargo pants just above… — Janet Evanovich
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.… — Robert A. Heinlein
And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside. — Lauren Kate
No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-" She held her breath. "-… — Nalini Singh
He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very… — Anne Stuart
He reaches over a goat that's come between us and grabs my hand. "Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while… — Margaret Haddix
I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a… — Cecil Castellucci
Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game… — Koushun Takami
Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles? — Georgette Heyer
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death… — Banana Yoshimoto
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and… — Edith Wharton
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadnâ€™t, and… — Nicole Krauss
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source… — R. D. Laing
Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not.… — Kate DiCamillo
For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who… — Brandon Sanderson
As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his… — Alice Munro
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the… — William Blake
Are you armed?" Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No." "Lie to me again and I'll put… — Rachel Caine
Patch reached for my hand and pushed my dad's ring off the tip of his finger and into my palm, curling my fingers around it.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs. — Amy Carmichael

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