Letter Quotes
942 Letter quotes by 752 unique authors
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If. A two-letter word for futility.
— Sidney Sheldon
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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —…
— Maurice Sendak
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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling,"…
— Truman Capote
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He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the…
— William Shakespeare
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Valek smiled. “Good. First, send Kade a reply, asking him not to come.” He pointed at the unopened letter on the table. I had forgotten…
— Maria V. Snyder
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It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Tohru: "Call a doctor, or a vet, or something! Mr. Postman! It's terrible! You see?! They're animals!" Mailman: "Well, uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's…
— Natsuki Takaya
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He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so…
— Justina Chen
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If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write…
— Garth Stein
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As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying…
— Cassandra Clare
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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go…
— Douglas Adams
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long…
— Robin Hobb
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Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
— Lorrie Moore
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I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms…
— Lawrence Durrell
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How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a…
— Juliet Marillier
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Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
— Pico Iyer
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I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That…
— Lisa Kleypas
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He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in…
— Douglas Adams
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... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it,…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who…
— Orhan Pamuk
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752 authors contributed a total of 942 Letter Quotes, led by these top contributors: