Leapt Quotes
30 Leapt quotes by 29 unique authors
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
— Harlan Coben
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I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here,…
— James M. Barrie
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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said…
— Jack Kerouac
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
— Osbert Sitwell
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I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.
— Paula Fox
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
— Ray Bradbury
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Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His…
— James Russell Lowell
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
— Bill Ayers
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If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt…
— Mark Haddon
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
— William Blake
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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my…
— Keith Donohue
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As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses. They definitely seemed alarmed. But…
— John Flanagan
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Boo," I said. He reacted as all mutts react when I confront them. He leapt from his chair and dove for the nearest exit, shaking…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it…
— Cassandra Clare
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It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of…
— C.S. Lewis
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My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do…
— Richelle Mead
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Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up. “Don’t bother,” Esrahaddon told them. “She’s dead, and there’s nothing you can do. The monster cannot…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood…
— Philip Pullman
Who Wrote These Leapt Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Leapt Quotes, led by these top contributors: