Kept Quotes
2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors
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I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he…
— Anne Fortier
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My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept…
— Richelle Mead
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what…
— Jack Kornfield
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There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could…
— Lauren Oliver
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What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look…
— Ally Carter
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The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She…
— Ally Carter
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Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation,…
— Anne Bronte
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When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget...…
— Katherine Paterson
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I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they…
— Charles Bukowski
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I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window.…
— Kirsten Miller
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Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
— John Green
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Sorry, but I have plans elsewhere,” William said darkly. “I’m leaving tomorrow morning, and I’ll be gone for a few weeks.” “What plans?” “Doesn’t matter…
— Gena Showalter
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The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
— Henry Miller
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It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I…
— Alice Hoffman
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Clarabelle...Clarabelle... You worked as Kenspeckle Grouse's assistant, did you not?' 'One of the. He fired all the others.' 'But not you?' 'He fired me on…
— Derek Landy
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Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
— Charles Bukowski
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No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities…
— Cassandra Clare
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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it…
— Jean Piaget
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And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him…
— J R Ward
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I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the…
— J R Ward
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And you, Mom. I loved you. You've asked if i felt and understood that you loved me. of course I did. And you know this.…
— Lisa Genova
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He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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