Mark Quotes
2058 quotes by 1537 authors
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So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering,…
— George Eliot
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I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone…
— Helene Hanff
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He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged…
— Anna Sewell
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Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had…
— Jennifer Egan
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
— Isaac Marion
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So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being…
— William Shakespeare
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Mark my words, Princess,†Loki said. “One day, you’ll be madly in love with me.
— Amanda Hocking
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Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of…
— Iain Banks
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To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this…
— David Foster Wallace
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does…
— Bell Hooks
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I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone…
— Alain de Botton
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There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.
— Joyce Meyer
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I don't know what you two are up to," Hobart said. "But you be careful now, you hear? Don't do anything I wouldn't do." "Well…
— Margaret Haddix
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I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a mark on me.…
— Rick Riordan
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Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be…
— Philip Roth
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But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave…
— Stephenie Meyer
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