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2520 Held quotes by 1751 unique authors

All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my… — Shirley Jackson
Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It… — Pat Barker
The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult… — Lisa Kleypas
There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my… — Sarah Dessen
Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect. — Edgar Allan Poe
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people… — Jeanne DuPrau
They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to… — Nalini Singh
It felt so good just to be held — Lauren Kate
She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art… — Christina Dodd
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space… — Hilary Mantel
It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a… — Sophie Scholl
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both… — Lauren Willig
You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that." And it was memories like that that… — Richelle Mead
[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing… — Obert Skye
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the… — Nicholas Sparks
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. — Melina Marchetta
The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my… — Kim Harrison
I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I don’t play… — Rick Riordan
A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a… — Ariana Franklin
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost… — Stephenie Meyer
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships… — James Joyce
It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am… — Richard G. Scott
All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom… — Hermann Hesse
A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog,… — Wislawa Szymborska

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