Hidden Quotes
1704 quotes by 1178 authors
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It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy…
— Sarah Dessen
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Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body…
— Lois Lowry
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In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the…
— Marcel Proust
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out…
— Terry Pratchett
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Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
— T.A. Barron
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This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her…
— Jodi Picoult
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A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.…
— Dani Shapiro
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For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now…
— Amy Tan
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement…
— Frederick Buechner
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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was…
— Salman Rushdie
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
— Jodi Picoult
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I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know…
— Jodi Picoult
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Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed…
— Libba Bray
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My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have…
— Baltasar Gracian
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid…
— Pablo Neruda
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
— Louise Erdrich
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Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
— Virginia Woolf
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People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
— Steve Toltz
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Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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