Held Quotes

2520 quotes by 1807 authors

I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
David held up his hands. "Hold it. This is going nowhere. You two are both afraid, and being afraid makes you angry, and being angry… — Cate Tiernan
Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want… — Richelle Mead
What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and… — Galileo Galilei
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. — Alan Hollinghurst
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. — Ben Okri
Agent Jones held Sinjinâ€™s face in his hands. â€œIâ€™m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.â€ â€œHow right you are, strange delusional man,â€… — Libba Bray
I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And… — Sylvia Plath
Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer.Â Taking up the decanter he held… — Djuna Barnes
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without… — Haruki Murakami
Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet… — Rick Riordan
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He… — Robert A. Heinlein
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not… — Howard Zinn
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak. — Scott Westerfeld
You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her… — Ken Follett
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my… — Langston Hughes
Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read… — Sylvia Plath
Thatâ€™s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,… — Walter Mosley
Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon. — Anne Rice

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