Perfectly Quotes
1695 Perfectly quotes by 1227 unique authors
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Dead bodies are calm and silent—perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse…
— Dan Wells
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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even…
— Hilary McKay
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Perfect love is perfectly patient.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I…
— Jane Austen
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It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition…
— Neil Gaiman
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He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless…
— Edith Wharton
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with…
— Ann Patchett
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer.…
— Brandon Mull
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Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in,…
— Lauren Oliver
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When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.
— Louise Rennison
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And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no…
— C.S. Lewis
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Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid…
— Brené Brown
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This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement…
— Justin Torres
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No. Absolutely not.” “Simon,” she said. “It’s a perfectly fine plan.” “The plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket…
— Cassandra Clare
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That was a perfectly reasonable explanation," she said grumpily. "Perhaps my advisers don't lie to me." "Isn't that what you'd want?" asked Giddon. "Well, yes,…
— Kristin Cashore
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Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?
— John Green
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Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his…
— Neil Gaiman
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly…
— Idries Shah
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Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire,…
— Douglas Adams
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I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
— Louisa May Alcott
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