Palms Quotes
380 quotes by 308 authors
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your…
— Ellen Bass
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I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm…
— Annie Proulx
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You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you…
— Stephen King
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A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of…
— Nick Drake
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Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is…
— Paulo Coelho
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Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By…
— Haruki Murakami
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It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our…
— Brian Aldiss
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I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as…
— Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
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When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A…
— Harper Lee
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She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "...take thee Alexander..." She…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of…
— Gloria Naylor
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It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it…
— Susan Vreeland
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May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
— Robert Jordan
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Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a…
— Maya Angelou
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It’s funny—when people call you “shy,†they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the…
— Claudia Gray
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So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Who Wrote These Palms Quotes
308 authors contributed a total of 380 Palms Quotes, led by these top contributors: