Knees Quotes
1207 Knees quotes by 922 unique authors
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With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her…
— Gail Carriger
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He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?
— Gail Carriger
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Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt…
— Cassandra Clare
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I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed…
— Judy Blundell
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…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where…
— Ilona Andrews
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Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third bit of paper.…
— Gail Carriger
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Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her…
— Richelle Mead
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I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees…
— Kate Chopin
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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. "Don't you…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And…
— Walt Disney
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Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.
— Anna Akhmatova
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The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth…
— Dean Koontz
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To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your…
— Unknown Author
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A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a…
— John Steinbeck
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.
— Gail Carriger
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The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its…
— Suzanne Collins
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And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible…
— Nick Cave
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After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.
— Lauren Kate
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