Painfully Quotes
202 Painfully quotes by 177 unique authors
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Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse…
— Gena Showalter
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The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day…
— Haruki Murakami
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It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The…
— Kate Morton
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He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
— Diana Gabaldon
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Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
— Joseph Conrad
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-and nobody’s getting laid!” I practically shouted. “You think I don’t know that?” He shifted his body beneath me, making me painfully aware of something.…
— Karen Marie Moning
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He turned to shut and lock the door, then came close, his gaze touching her features. “I missed you, Holly.” Her heart caught painfully. The…
— Jill Shalvis
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Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol.…
— Suzanne Collins
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I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.
— Richard Yates
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She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires,…
— Anais Nin
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We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.…
— Erich Segal
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He [Kai] blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.…
— Marissa Meyer
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When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if…
— R.L. LaFevers
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...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.
— Marya Hornbacher
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When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that…
— Josh Lanyon
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Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life…
— Michael Crichton
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She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion,…
— Hermann Hesse
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Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
— David Levithan
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O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively…
— Ilona Andrews
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Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you…
— Jonathan Tropper
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