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2520 Held quotes by 1751 unique authors

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the… — Sarah Dessen
Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh,… — Leif Enger
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion — Khaled Hosseini
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and… — Jack London
Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped. "You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held… — Shannon Hale
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inapproprite suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity.… — Richelle Mead
No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my… — Andrew Sean Greer
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of… — Cormac McCarthy
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… — Anne Lamott
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso… — Jodi Picoult
Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them… — Cassandra Clare
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater… — Marya Hornbacher
It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more… — Margaret Atwood
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not… — Woody Allen
When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate… — Dan Brown
The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just… — Kevin Brooks
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. — Galileo Galilei
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My… — Edgar Allan Poe
His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar… — Lilith Saintcrow
Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I — Carrie Vaughn
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a… — Jim Butcher
I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours… — Ayn Rand

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