Pushing Quotes
778 Pushing quotes by 652 unique authors
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Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste…
— Abbi Glines
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Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down…
— Patrick Ness
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I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.
— Kristin Cashore
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She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the…
— Sarah Dessen
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I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.
— Stephen King
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I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
— Jeff Lindsay
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter…
— Albert Camus
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But Clary never found out what it wasn't, because there was a cry of "Jace!" and Alec appeared, breathless from pushing his way through the…
— Cassandra Clare
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It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened…
— Cassandra Clare
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But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her…
— Charles Frazier
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A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady…
— Veronica Roth
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God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
— Paulo Coelho
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When he didn't answer, she didn't know if it was because he couldn't or if he was back to not talking to her. Back to…
— C.C. Hunter
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I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of…
— David Malouf
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Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core.…
— Cameron Dokey
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What have the nibblers ever done for you?" The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of…
— Suzanne Collins
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It’s all right,” she said. “You’re through.” “Jesus,” he finally managed, pushing water off his face. “Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. For that matter,…
— Tessa Dare
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He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over…
— Patricia Cornwell
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There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country.…
— Libba Bray
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