Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start…
— Claudia Gray
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Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was…
— Janet Fitch
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The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;…
— Roland Barthes
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We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
— Eric Roth
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Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the…
— Kathryn Stockett
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I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony
— Richelle Mead
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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
— Nick Hornby
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Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
— Libba Bray
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You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beat- ing heart.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.
— Ally Carter
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Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes,…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Ever come home and found your room messed up? Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "clean" it, and suddenly you can't find…
— Rick Riordan
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I wanna get back To the old days When the phone would ring And I knew it was you I wanna talk back And get…
— Demi Lovato
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Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was…
— Joseph Heller
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Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went…
— Alice Sebold
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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father,…
— Alice Sebold
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