Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing.…
— Michael Ende
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In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the…
— Charles Baxter
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Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we…
— Orson Scott Card
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...there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." --…
— Suzanne Brockmann
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
— John Green
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Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books…
— Betty Smith
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But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that…
— Jodi Picoult
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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
— Jodi Picoult
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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
— Janet Fitch
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And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was…
— Katherine Applegate
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When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
— John Grisham
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No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.
— Charlaine Harris
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Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the…
— Neil Gaiman
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Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss…
— Roald Dahl
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Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of…
— Jane Austen
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Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road…
— Rick Bragg
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