Returning Quotes
357 quotes by 309 authors
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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just…
— Dante Alighieri
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So, Magellan, where are we going? (Danger) Away. I’m open to any location, so long as it doesn’t involve returning to your house while Wart-Head…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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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
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The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand. “Not bad,†I said. “Keep it…
— Rick Riordan
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This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few…
— Gary Paulsen
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And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds…
— Wendell Berry
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The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed,…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding…
— Lauren Kate
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Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
— Wendell Berry
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Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if…
— Gary Shteyngart
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as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled…
— Anne Fortier
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I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Thatʹs a dangerous look,ʺ said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road. ʺWhat look?ʺ I asked innocently. ʺThe one…
— Richelle Mead
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Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was…
— Frank Herbert
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someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream…
— Orson Scott Card
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A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and…
— Pico Iyer
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Juliana?†the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that…
— Sarah MacLean
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I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there…
— John Connolly
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Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can…
— Jennifer Egan
Who Wrote These Returning Quotes
309 authors contributed a total of 357 Returning Quotes, led by these top contributors: