Sealed Quotes
153 Sealed quotes by 136 unique authors
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And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a…
— Edmond Rostand
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Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free.…
— Nora Roberts
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Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must…
— Brian Jacques
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Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..." Shigure: "Sorry,…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard…
— Anthony Bourdain
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In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed…
— Dave Eggers
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If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been…
— George Orwell
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I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub…
— Alice Sebold
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Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?" The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised…
— Frank Beddor
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But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing…
— Jodi Picoult
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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that…
— John Kennedy Toole
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We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our…
— Veronica Franco
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Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could…
— Janet Frame
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I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century…
— Henry Rollins
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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human…
— William Blake
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She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside…
— Angela Carter
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Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.
— Julie Garwood
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Valek smiled. “Good. First, send Kade a reply, asking him not to come.” He pointed at the unopened letter on the table. I had forgotten…
— Maria V. Snyder
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The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in…
— John Boyne
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Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a…
— Nicole Krauss
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The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie…
— Charles Dickens
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But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her,…
— Philip K. Dick
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I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in…
— Gladys Taber
Who Wrote These Sealed Quotes
136 authors contributed a total of 153 Sealed Quotes, led by these top contributors: