Kept Quotes

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He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally… — Martina Cole
Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?” Clary thought of… — Cassandra Clare
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record… — Toni Morrison
Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not… — Bernhard Schlink
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. — John Green
Love makes you weak. This I know for sure. Mom loved Roger. Roger loved Mom.And look what happpened there. She died. She thought her love… — Barry Lyga
Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. — J D Salinger
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept. — Trenton Lee Stewart
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him.… — Ravi Zacharias
He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be… — Rainbow Rowell
Abe's face came back into focus. "Greetings, Zmey," I said weakly. Somehow, him being here didn't surprise me. "Nice of you to slither on in."… — Richelle Mead
God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.” Smiling, he returned to his chair.… — Richelle Mead
I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but… — Brandon Sanderson
I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You… — Nick Hornby
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. — Barbara Kingsolver
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest… — Emily Dickinson
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended… — Mary Balogh
You're crying?" he said. "No, I- " I tore my gaze away. "Just dust. From the path. Simon's that way." I tried to pass him,… — Kelley Armstrong
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were… — Dennis Lehane
Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or… — Haruki Murakami
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake. — Jonathan Franzen
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to… — Frank Herbert
It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay. — Tina St. John
...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in… — Angela Carter

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