I Asked Quotes
870 I Asked quotes by 564 unique authors
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Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I…
— Jennifer Weiner
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She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and…
— W S Merwin
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A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,…
— Sherwood Smith
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It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a…
— Betty Smith
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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open…
— Sarah Dessen
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When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
— Pablo Neruda
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Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves…
— Rick Riordan
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I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad…
— Shel Silverstein
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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
— Frank McCourt
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How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and…
— Alexander Shulgin
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Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me,…
— Italo Calvino
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I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.
— Woody Allen
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You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you,…
— Tennessee Williams
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Do you even know what hammerd means?" I asked. "Something to do with drinking your American beer out of a hole in the side of…
— Jennifer Rardin
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I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer…
— Miranda July
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He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much…
— Dodie Smith
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Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. "Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see…
— Mildred D. Taylor
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I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great.…
— David Sedaris
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