Knees Quotes
1207 Knees quotes by 922 unique authors
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile…
— Ann Brashares
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You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest,…
— Tessa Dare
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No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's…
— Mary Renault
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Grace," I said, my vision swirling now because of her blood smeared across my wrists, "Can you hear me?" She nodded then stumbled to her…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
— Eugene Field
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Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though,…
— Shan Sa
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When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again." "Are you…
— Maria V. Snyder
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When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from…
— Denis Johnson
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Every pellet has a story all its own. Every pellet has a story all its own. With its fur and teeth and bones And one…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters…
— John Flanagan
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I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't…
— Mitch Albom
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A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down…
— Taylor Swift
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I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.
— Rick Riordan
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THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding…
— William Butler Yeats
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Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,…
— Terry Pratchett
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I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
— Che Guevara
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He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean,…
— Stephen King
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She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell…
— Paul Zindel
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Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants…
— Selma Lagerlöf
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Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get…
— Cassandra Clare
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He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps…
— Aldo Leopold
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I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and…
— Ally Carter
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