Sharp Quotes

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As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he… — Henry Miller
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. — Aravind Adiga
What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such… — Jodi Picoult
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. — Joe Meno
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does… — Christopher Moore
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you… — Douglas Adams
Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst. — Lisa McMann
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain â€“ ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the… — Amy Tan
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart… — Christopher Moore
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and… — Anais Nin
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its… — Freya Stark
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal… — Bram Stoker
With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one… — Bram Stoker
When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's… — Steven Brust
When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch… — Ibi Kaslik
He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's… — Annette Curtis Klause
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres,… — John Donne

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