Jars Quotes
184 quotes by 152 authors
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Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.
— Rachel Caine
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Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat…
— Anthony Bourdain
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One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical…
— Rick Riordan
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I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in…
— Sylvia Plath
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From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears…
— J R Ward
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Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean…
— Terry Pratchett
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Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
— Stephen King
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An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him,…
— James Patterson
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Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness,…
— Sylvia Plath
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living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important…
— James Patterson
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We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing —…
— Emily Dickinson
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It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a…
— Holly Black
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My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create…
— Ruta Sepetys
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Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!
— Charles M. Schulz
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I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.
— Charlaine Harris
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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain…
— Susan Fletcher
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Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on…
— Ilona Andrews
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