Returning Quotes

357 quotes by 309 authors

Donâ€™t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writingâ€”and then putting your words… — Sharon Creech
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin… — Victor Hugo
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving.… — Sue Monk Kidd
With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to… — Clive Barker
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of… — Haruki Murakami
This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some… — Douglas Coupland
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they… — Lauren Groff
Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us.… — Paulo Coelho
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit… — Janette Rallison
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port… — Charlotte Bronte
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our… — Cecelia Ahern
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to… — Madeleine L'Engle
She stood, squared her shoulders. â€œWeâ€™ll do it. Together.â€ And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed… — Gena Showalter
And stop doing that,â€ he said. â€œBacking away, giving me that look.â€ Like youâ€™re scaring me? Maybe you are.â€ He stepped back so fast he… — Kelley Armstrong
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to… — Daniel Defoe
Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything — Elizabeth Strout

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