Knees Quotes
1207 Knees quotes by 922 unique authors
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I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for…
— Suzanne Collins
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Courage is fear on its knees.
— Beverly Lewis
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Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no…
— Marya Hornbacher
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I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to…
— John Green
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Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a…
— Jennifer Rardin
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Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees…
— Rachel Cohn
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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I…
— Brian Jacques
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Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die
— Lauren Oliver
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I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.
— Kiera Cass
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Wraith held up his hands. "Chill, Gramps. I don't want to sit on your knee or anything.
— Larissa Ione
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When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to…
— George R. R. Martin
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Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably:…
— Rick Riordan
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She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung…
— Ken Kesey
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Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.
— Andre Agassi
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If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or…
— Jonathan Evison
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I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But…
— Diana Gabaldon
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This is a—a proposal of marriage?” he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth,…
— Juliet Marillier
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You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up…
— Libba Bray
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A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She…
— Libba Bray
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