Kept Quotes

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Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself. — Kami Garcia
He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready… — Connie Willis
‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours… — John Green
There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He… — Charlie Higson
I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up… — D. J. MacHale
I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them… — Stephen Chbosky
Adrian opened his mouth, undoubtedly ready with some inappropriate and mocking comment. Lissa gave him a sharp headshake that kept him quiet. "Aren't there any,… — Richelle Mead
'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her… — Jim Butcher
I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's… — Ewan McGregor
Really, it's my fault. It was there. A hundred times there. How often did I see it? I knew. It kept happening. Over and over,… — Richelle Mead
The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do. — Charles Bukowski
I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem… — Sylvia Plath
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy." I had been tracked, like a bear. "Sorry to… — Maureen Johnson
And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth… — Charlotte Bronte
There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the… — Suzanne Collins
Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of… — Markus Zusak
I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until… — Jenny Valentine
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there;… — Carol Ann Duffy
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always… — Stendhal
I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible… — John Green
It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking… — Kami Garcia

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