Literally Quotes
1298 quotes by 1073 authors
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I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone…
— Mary Balogh
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I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME…
— Louise Rennison
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You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock. -Clary Fray to Jace Wayland
— Cassandra Clare
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To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot…
— David Foster Wallace
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Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself…
— Russell Brand
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The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly…
— David Foster Wallace
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Let's be clear on this, he growled. You have no idea how badly I want to be inside you. Standing up, lying down, taking you…
— Larissa Ione
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People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did…
— Ann Brashares
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Bite me, Goth princess,†Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.†“Maybe you should say that to Michael.†“Not funny, Eve,†Michael said.…
— Rachel Caine
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Now Bella, you know Jacob adores you. He naturally wants to protect you. He literally worships the ground you walk on." "Ha ha," Bella said…
— Jacquelyn Frank
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My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to…
— Charlaine Harris
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I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history…
— James A. Baldwin
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Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
— Joseph Campbell
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When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than…
— Eminem
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If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous, he literally kept…
— Richelle Mead
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I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my "perfect other half." Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half,…
— James Patterson
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When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I…
— Jenna Black
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He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many…
— Haruki Murakami
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