Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1369 authors
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children,…
— Louise Erdrich
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And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it…
— Lauren Oliver
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Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me…
— John Bunyan
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The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know I will probably…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Whatever happened to the dragon?" I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know." Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look.…
— Richelle Mead
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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
— Victor Hugo
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
— Louise Erdrich
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What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to…
— Russell Brand
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As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging…
— David Eddings
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As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his…
— Sherwood Anderson
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Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby. "Can it do any tricks yet?" "I'm still working on it. Want to hold her?" "God,…
— Derek Landy
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Will pushed his hands through his damp hair. “Oh, yes,†he said bitterly. “Perhaps in some other life, beyond this one, when we have passed…
— Cassandra Clare
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The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if…
— Ally Carter
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained…
— Langston Hughes
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Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we…
— Tony Parsons
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Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because…
— Melina Marchetta
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Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will…
— Chinua Achebe
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