Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after… — Gail Carriger
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I couldn't help shaking my head as I looked at him. Ian slept like a baby every morning - well, a baby who continually kept… — Jeaniene Frost
There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road… — D. J. MacHale
In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another… — Neil Gaiman
The only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.'" "What about 'More, Gareth'?" "He almost kept a straith face. "That… — Julia Quinn
But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again. — Karen Russell
An execution order hasn’t kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together.” “Is that an order?” “No, a… — Maria V. Snyder
I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking. — Judy Blundell
Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not… — J R Ward
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the… — Stephen King
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and… — Mark Twain
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,… — Tim O'Brien
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. — Deb Caletti
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. — Angela Carter
It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in… — Jean Webster
And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly. — Loretta Chase
There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else… — Sarah Dessen
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs… — Sarah Dessen
During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless… — Sarah Dessen
His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. — David Levithan
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going… — Steve Jobs
Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised? — Stephenie Meyer
... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I… — John Keats

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