Pile Quotes
325 Pile quotes by 288 unique authors
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Disciples of Jesus Christ understand that compared to eternity, our existence in this mortal sphere is only “a small moment” in space and time. They…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building…
— Charles Dickens
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How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn’s gift?” “No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there,…
— Richelle Mead
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I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it,…
— Suzanne Collins
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In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can…
— Ian Mcewan
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Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!
— Rick Riordan
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A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
— Scott Westerfeld
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If it's your wish, I will follow you everywhere even if your throne crumbles, and your shiny crown turns to rust. Even if the bodies…
— Yana Toboso
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Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.
— Francine Pascal
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I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
— Bill Watterson
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Find a pile of gold and sit on it.
— John Gardner
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Uriah drops his tray next to me. It is loaded with beef stew and chocolate cake. I stare at the cake pile. “There was cake?”…
— Veronica Roth
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You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a…
— Frank McCourt
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I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them,…
— John Green
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In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick…
— Alfie Kohn
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Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers…
— Erin Morgenstern
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He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one…
— George R. R. Martin
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I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right…
— Laini Taylor
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It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
— Daniel Handler
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Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special…
— Maureen Johnson
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Bluh-huh-huh" Minho groaned, a shudder of repulsion, like he'd just stepped in a pile of klunk.
— James Dashner
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Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all...and pile on the years.
— Natsuki Takaya
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Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it…
— Ann Hood
Who Wrote These Pile Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 325 Pile Quotes, led by these top contributors: