Insistent Quotes
67 quotes by 63 authors
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And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to…
— Sharon Shinn
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In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external…
— Pope John Paul II
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The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of…
— Elif Safak
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a…
— Gregory Maguire
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Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar.…
— Deb Caletti
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They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as…
— William Faulkner
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But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action…
— Deb Caletti
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Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind.…
— Deb Caletti
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It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron…
— Don DeLillo
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…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be…
— Sylvia Plath
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She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't…
— Jean M. Auel
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He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is…
— Veronica Roth
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It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an…
— Lynn Flewelling
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It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.
— George R. R. Martin
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He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasn’t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was…
— Tessa Dare
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I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was…
— Lionel Shriver
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but…
— Veronica Roth
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I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was…
— Veronica Roth
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must…
— Felix Dennis
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