Ledge Quotes
50 quotes by 49 authors
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Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your…
— Angela Carter
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Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't…
— James Patterson
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We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling…
— Rick Riordan
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Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question,…
— Amy Hempel
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Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you…
— Karen Chance
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Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly…
— Ellen Hopkins
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There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth her sister missed…
— Jandy Nelson
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I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be…
— Jack Kerouac
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I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle…
— Pittacus Lore
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And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him…
— Daniel Keyes
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an…
— Holly Black
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Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most…
— Enid Blyton
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Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Even though I knew she wasn't going to jump, seeing her standing on the ledge made me realize that I want and need her in…
— Jessica Sorensen
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... to keep moving up ... , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting go of that…
— Nick Vujicic
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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road…
— Jodi Picoult
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We’re staying together,†he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.†Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A…
— Rick Riordan
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I took a day to search for God, And found Him not; but as I trod, By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one…
— William Bliss Carman
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