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If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I’ll—” I didn’t get to finish the threat. I think… — Patricia Briggs
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every… — Aldous Huxley
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may… — Albert Camus
Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence. — Sarah Addison Allen
Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I… — Bohumil Hrabal
I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd… — P.G. Wodehouse
Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said,… — Brennan Manning
How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence… — David Levithan
There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of… — Philip K. Dick
There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the… — Pat Conroy
You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more… — Ann Brashares
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those… — Will Self
I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it… — Neil Gaiman
Good night, Seth." "So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor. "I'm not running." The other boot hit the floor.… — Melissa Marr
There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people. — John Green
I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be.… — Ellen Schreiber
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way… — Iain Banks
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of… — Lynne Truss
One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was… — Sarah Dessen
but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils… — Suzanne Collins
Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to… — Julia Quinn
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. — Winston Churchill
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer
Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and… — Edward Gorey

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