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Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. — George Orwell
I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could… — Jim Butcher
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth… — John Berger
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk… — Pat Conroy
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece… — Jodi Picoult
Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to… — Julia Quinn
Children,” Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. “I am never quite certain if I’m glad I had them. — Julia Quinn
I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past… — Becca Fitzpatrick
That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own. — Janette Rallison
So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them. — Colum McCann
One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever". — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this… — Jacques Derrida
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together… — Jeanette Winterson
I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know? — John Green
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So… — George Carlin
We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other,… — Tonya Hurley
It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of… — James A. Baldwin
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere. — Alain de Botton
I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind — Charles Bukowski
Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching. — Cressida Cowell
Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet, horrible morning, when… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think.… — John Green
When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump,… — Gayle Forman
Jem, Cecily thought, with a pang in her heart. Her brother had always looked to him as a kind of North Star, a compass that… — Cassandra Clare

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