Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still,…
— Patricia Briggs
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Henry turned as if to dart out of the room, then swung around and stared at them, a look of confusion passing over his freckled…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold…
— Aimee Bender
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Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned…
— Steve Martin
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And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten…
— Neil Gaiman
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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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We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave…
— Edna O'Brien
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I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and…
— Stephen King
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and…
— Charles Bukowski
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It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe…
— Rachel Vincent
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She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
— Elizabeth Scott
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But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything…
— Jodi Picoult
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Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting.…
— Candace Bushnell
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There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the…
— Suzanne Collins
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I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll…
— Markus Zusak
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i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't…
— Natalie Goldberg
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