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2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where… — J. Michael Straczynski
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this! — Roald Dahl
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is… — William Shakespeare
She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the… — Jerry Spinelli
I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen… — Lewis Carroll
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's… — Deb Caletti
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the… — Victor Hugo
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. — Sarah Addison Allen
A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it… — Deb Caletti
Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey… — P. C. Cast
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”) — Yevgeny Zamyatin
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell. — Raegan Butcher
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak… — Osamu Dazai
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child… — Sarah Dessen
There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this. — Jennifer Crusie
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of… — Alexandre Dumas-fils
You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk… — Sarah MacLean
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it… — Sarah Dessen
They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity. — Kobayashi Issa
Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all of this was… — Meg Cabot
When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut… — Margaret Atwood
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and… — Terry Pratchett
…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into… — Louisa May Alcott

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