Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1751 authors
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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for…
— Dolly Parton
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I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one,…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into…
— Charles de Lint
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I need to call Matt and let him know I'm okay," I said. Finn held the passenger door open while I got inside. As soon…
— Amanda Hocking
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages…
— Charles Dickens
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Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think…
— Christine Feehan
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I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing…
— Jodi Picoult
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Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us…
— Rick Yancey
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She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door
— Patricia Briggs
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He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.
— Arundhati Roy
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Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until the end of…
— Richelle Mead
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Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
— Trudi Canavan
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The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they…
— Abbi Glines
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Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
— Stephen King
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When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms,…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
— Brandon Sanderson
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In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle…
— Suzanne Collins
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Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best…
— Ellis Peters
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The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.
— Anne Sexton
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