Lifted Quotes
404 Lifted quotes by 331 unique authors
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What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky…
— Judith McNaught
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch…
— Oscar Wilde
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You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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You okay now ?" he asked. "Okay." He tightened his arms and lifted me off my feet. "Mercy?" he growled into my ear. I wrapped…
— Patricia Briggs
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Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges…
— Ray Bradbury
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at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I don’t know how you can stand it. Over and over again, the same sadness—” He lifted her up. “The same ecstasy—” “The same fire…
— Lauren Kate
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Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely…
— Lynsay Sands
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Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut…
— George R. R. Martin
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Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to…
— Rick Riordan
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They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to…
— Tim O'Brien
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Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to…
— Rachel Caine
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Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.
— Jim Butcher
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You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments.…
— Denzel Washington
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Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he…
— Markus Zusak
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But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will…
— Charlotte Bronte
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....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.
— Paullina Simons
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How?" I demanded. "How could you have screwed this one up?" "When I got in, they said the manager was on the phone and would…
— Richelle Mead
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Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It…
— Tom Perrotta
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He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all…
— Justin Cronin
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I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I'll walk you back,"he said with such apparently boundless amiability that Diana wanted to deck him. "That isn't necessary," she began as her hand was…
— Nora Roberts
Who Wrote These Lifted Quotes
331 authors contributed a total of 404 Lifted Quotes, led by these top contributors: