Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1334 authors
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I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots…
— David Wong
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Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.
— Nalini Singh
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Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like…
— Cormac McCarthy
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What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything…
— Ron Rash
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But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that…
— Laurie R. King
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This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting…
— Groucho Marx
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What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.…
— Veronica Roth
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As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must go in, it's…
— Louise Rennison
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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
— Bill Bryson
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in…
— Paul Celan
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in…
— Walker Percy
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We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something…
— Kim Harrison
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How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the…
— Melina Marchetta
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard…
— Sara Shepard
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Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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