Prefer Quotes
1738 Prefer quotes by 1359 unique authors
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Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So…
— Jen Lancaster
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What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda." ..... "Judith!…
— Georgette Heyer
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That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned to my own scar. Patch…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
— Erin Morgenstern
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If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten…
— David Levithan
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The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think…
— Shannon Hale
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What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
— Nalini Singh
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Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be…
— Rachel Vincent
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
— Albert Einstein
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Curran gave me a flat look. "I can always drive to a burger joint instead." "Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and…
— Ilona Andrews
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm…
— Julian Barnes
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I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.
— Kenneth Oppel
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Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not…
— Erin Morgenstern
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I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to…
— Tina Fey
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That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I’m afraid I already knew that about you.
— Marissa Meyer
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Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so…
— Katie MacAlister
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But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of…
— Donna Tartt
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I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to…
— Julia Child
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Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of…
— Tad Williams
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The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million…
— Lucy Christopher
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Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
— Sue Townsend
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It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into…
— Tom Stoppard
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