I Keep Quotes
1192 quotes by 882 authors
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
— Jim Butcher
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You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm,…
— Rodman Philbrick
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I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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What about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.
— Suzanne Collins
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I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim."…
— Richelle Mead
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The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that?…
— Stephen Fry
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Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had?…
— Nick Hornby
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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or…
— Raymond Carver
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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to…
— Anais Nin
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Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or…
— Nick Hornby
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I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and…
— Helen DeWitt
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I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary…
— Lauren Myracle
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives…
— Louise Erdrich
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Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Let's face it, she can't have simply disappeared...can she?" Horace shrugged. "That's what I keep telling myself," he said morosley. "But somehow it looks as…
— John Flanagan
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Puck turned to Sabrina. "What is she doing down there?" Hiding, I guess." Puck leaned down and poked his head under the seat. "I found…
— Michael Buckley
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