Missed Quotes
1177 Missed quotes by 900 unique authors
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When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a…
— Cecelia Ahern
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You missed with me so close? What? You failed your assassin training classes? Did you even bother to show up? Or are you just that…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and…
— Rick Riordan
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth her sister missed…
— Jandy Nelson
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Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of…
— Meg Rosoff
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I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of…
— Paul Auster
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He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.
— Cassandra Clare
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You missed the point completely! You're acting..." The word stuck in my throat. He didn't hesitate to say it. "Jealous?" When I nodded, he continued.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is…
— Henry Rollins
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He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes…
— Steven Brust
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When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from…
— Denis Johnson
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Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to…
— Edith Wharton
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I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.
— Lorrie Moore
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If I missed out on some really big action, I’m going to be royally pissed off!
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know…
— Gary Shteyngart
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People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often,…
— Josephine Humphreys
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter?…
— Ally Carter
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You’re pretty smart for a Fed.” “I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the…
— Diana Rowland
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I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the…
— Augusten Burroughs
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