Managed Quotes
691 quotes by 587 authors
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The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
— Ilona Andrews
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But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest…
— Ismail Kadaré
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether…
— Haruki Murakami
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Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.
— Cassandra Clare
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can…
— Iain Banks
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To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition…
— Marcel Proust
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You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?
— Richelle Mead
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So it’s still standing?†he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since…
— Dan Brown
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for…
— Carson McCullers
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I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
— William Saroyan
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The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was…
— Julia Quinn
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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on…
— S E Hinton
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Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her…
— Lisi Harrison
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I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly…
— Stephenie Meyer
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In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
— Jodi Picoult
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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