Held Quotes

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He picked up the wrench and broke the guyâ€™s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the… — Lee Child
In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose… — Mary Roach
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. — Ezra Pound
They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart… — Neil Gaiman
The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted… — William Golding
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being… — Saint Augustine
They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them… — Neil Gaiman
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the… — Becca Fitzpatrick
He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasleyâ€™s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be… — Jim Butcher
...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling,"… — Gary D. Schmidt
... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's… — Charles de Lint
... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours… — Charlotte Bronte
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't… — David Levithan
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her,… — Nicholas Sparks
She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his… — James M. Barrie
The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could… — Ken Kesey
Time for bed.â€ I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees… — James Patterson
She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood… — Shannon Hale
She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower. — Maureen Johnson

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