Never Really Quotes
1324 quotes by 1055 authors
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The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is…
— Jonathan Coe
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I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that…
— Breece D'J Pancake
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When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will…
— Colum McCann
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He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered that…
— Dave Barry
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There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people— 
— Gaelen Foley
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I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
— Nora Roberts
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Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips.…
— Ann Beattie
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Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
— Brandon Sanderson
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What, are you totally psycho?" I shouted. "Maybe I am!" he screamed back at me. "Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet…
— Neal Shusterman
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I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
— Marilynne Robinson
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Ever since Dimitri came back...no, scratch that. Ever since you became obsessed with changing him, you've been torn over me. No matter what's happened between…
— Richelle Mead
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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would…
— Albert Camus
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Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.
— Portia de Rossi
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If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.†She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans…
— Jill Shalvis
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One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.
— Debra Ginsberg
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Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.
— Bill Bryson
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