Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1369 authors
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After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it!…
— Susan Minot
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...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into…
— W G Sebald
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Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on…
— Rick Riordan
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Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only…
— Leonard Cohen
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The days passed, as they do, and life went on.
— Kevin Brooks
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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away…
— Emily Dickinson
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You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That…
— Billie Letts
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He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the…
— Elizabeth George
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After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed…
— Lorrie Moore
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She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
— Alice Sebold
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The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives…
— Nicole Krauss
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Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking…
— Terry Pratchett
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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring…
— Albert Einstein
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Where's Simon?"..."Is he okay? Why isn't he here?" She glared at Derek. "Where'd you leave him?" Passed out in an alley." Derek frowned in thought.…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep,…
— Beryl Markham
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient.…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.
— Meg Rosoff
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I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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