Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay… — David Mitchell
Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. — Patrick Rothfuss
Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt… — Gayle Forman
The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking… — Ann Brashares
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands… — Virginia Woolf
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I want to lay my kill at your feet. — Annette Curtis Klause
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you. — William Congreve
Ask me to cut off my right arm for you, and I'll do it. Ask me to lay down my life for you, and I'll… — Catherine Anderson
Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before… — Lisa Kleypas
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step… — Dorothy Day
Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for… — Dalton Trumbo
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of… — Elizabeth Berg
Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone… — Anna Godbersen
A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen… — Diana Gabaldon
Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth.… — Haruki Murakami
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am… — Brent Weeks
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.… — C.S. Lewis
How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one wrist… — Nalini Singh
William: I just had the best idea ever. Let's give Maddox a ring. Paris: You mean propose to him? To grumpy ole Maddox? Willie, why… — Gena Showalter
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless… — Moderata Fonte
He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false… — Cormac McCarthy
She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect… — Patrick Rothfuss
Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?"… — Janet Evanovich

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