Scratched Quotes
72 Scratched quotes by 64 unique authors
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Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.
— Jackie French
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Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies,…
— Frederick Buechner
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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its…
— Eudora Welty
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Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much…
— Frances Hardinge
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If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have…
— Daniel Dennett
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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the…
— Janet Fitch
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After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we…
— Sarah Dessen
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Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well…
— Shannon Hale
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Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if…
— Rick Riordan
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The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were…
— Anais Nin
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Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand…
— Galway Kinnell
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Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring…
— Markus Zusak
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Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the…
— Rick Riordan
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Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
— Dashiell Hammett
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She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging…
— Cassandra Clare
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One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his…
— Ted Hughes
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Leo scratched his head. “Well I dunno about Enchiladas-“ “Enceladus,” Piper corrected. “Whatever. But Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear, or something?” “Porphyrion?”…
— Rick Riordan
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It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women…
— Candace Bushnell
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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of…
— Virginia Woolf
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Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. "Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't.
— Gordon Korman
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You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not."…
— Holly Black
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Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It's me, love," he said softly. "Everything's all right." Daisy managed to whisper through dry lips. "If you're a ghost...I hope you haunt me forever."…
— Lisa Kleypas
Who Wrote These Scratched Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 72 Scratched Quotes, led by these top contributors: