Held Quotes

2520 Held quotes by 1751 unique authors

Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a… — Jenna Black
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on. — Charlaine Harris
She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell… — Ann Brashares
They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog… — Shane Jones
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs… — Anthony de Mello
For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night… — J.R.R. Tolkien
She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away. — Maggie Stiefvater
i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a… — Margaret Atwood
Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it… — Kurt Vonnegut
She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried… — Rob Sheffield
Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as… — Annette Curtis Klause
We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might… — Annette Curtis Klause
It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them. — Stephen King
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words. — Don DeLillo
He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying… — Nicole Krauss
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other… — Kate Chopin
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and… — Jeanette Winterson
does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants… — Rachel Caine
‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They… — Bernard Cornwell
If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire… — Sara Teasdale
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness… — Terry Pratchett
Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him… — Jennifer Crusie
He shrugged, looking right into my eyes. "Right now, this is all I feel." He held our intertwined hands up for me to see and… — Rachel Vincent
All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul. — Jeaniene Frost

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