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86 Pinned quotes by 83 unique authors

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira] — Christopher Paolini
I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew… — Lloyd Jones
The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off,… — Frank Beddor
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant… — John Steinbeck
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against… — Theodore Roethke
She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!” “What’s surprising about it?” he enquired, lifting his black brows. “Didn’t you… — Georgette Heyer
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the… — John Updike
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with… — William Shakespeare
But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on… — Cassandra Clare
She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better." "Define… — Rachel Caine
I’ve lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that… — Lisa Kleypas
Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To… — Stephenie Meyer
Let’s talk.” I pinned Red to his chair with my stare. I did deranged quite well, when the occasion required. — Ilona Andrews
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M. Valente
We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans,… — Lauren Oliver
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be… — John Fowles
Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world. — Alexander Gordon Smith
Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then… — Kim Harrison
I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male. — Sylvia Day
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. — Madeleine L'Engle
...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back. — Janette Rallison
You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car.… — Sylvia Day
Sean reaches out between us and takes my wrist. He press his thumb on my pulse. My heartbeat trips and surges against his skin. I'm… — Maggie Stiefvater
I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the… — Becca Fitzpatrick
And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly. — Ian Fleming

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