Relieved Quotes
197 quotes by 184 authors
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Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship." I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
— John Green
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You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you…
— Hermann Hesse
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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
— Anita Shreve
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I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
— Jeanette Winterson
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My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd…
— Janet Evanovich
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some…
— Haruki Murakami
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Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing…
— David Deida
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I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet…
— Paul Theroux
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Leo and Soledad simultaneously gave out a sort of half laugh, half snort. It was loud, and it was relieved, and it broke the tension…
— Nancy Werlin
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You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And…
— Philip Roth
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She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?
— Neil Gaiman
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You were just worried about me." An exhale, relieved that I had understood. "Yeah" I turned. "Because you think I'm worth it" He put his…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is…
— Suzanne Collins
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He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's…
— Loretta Chase
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I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be,…
— Laura Moriarty
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There…
— Francesca Lia Block
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