Hook Quotes
362 quotes by 330 authors
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It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different…
— Neil Gaiman
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for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them…
— David Levithan
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She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue
— Ilona Andrews
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I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible…
— Leif Enger
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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep…
— Portia de Rossi
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Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you…
— Michael Scott
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This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement…
— Justin Torres
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I'd always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love--or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could…
— Tammara Webber
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When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the…
— Rob Bell
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Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism…
— John Green
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Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear…
— James M. Barrie
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The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't…
— Tana French
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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen…
— William Carlos Williams
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Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went…
— Dale Carnegie
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The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our…
— Adam Phillips
Who Wrote These Hook Quotes
330 authors contributed a total of 362 Hook Quotes, led by these top contributors: