Lay Quotes

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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix… — Oscar Wilde
Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind. — Toni Morrison
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone… — Ilona Andrews
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien
There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces… — Franz Kafka
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into… — Ann Patchett
East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through.… — Edith Pattou
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to… — Robert Louis Stevenson
They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and… — Arundhati Roy
As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we… — Anne Rice
It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward… — J.R.R. Tolkien
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew… — Graham Greene
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she… — Jane Austen
I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and… — Barry Lopez
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that… — Ian Mcewan
Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the… — Khaled Hosseini
Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this… — Bette Greene
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
All you have to do is speak up. Tell him straight up: "I need you here to protect and provide for us, to give us… — Steve Harvey
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens… — Haruki Murakami
But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I… — J.R.R. Tolkien
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves… — Siri Hustvedt
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the… — Nathanael West
I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all… — Jodi Picoult

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