Sheet Quotes
245 quotes by 228 authors
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What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
— John Updike
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Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine…
— Douglas Coupland
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Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real…
— John Connolly
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Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize.…
— Ibi Kaslik
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Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in…
— Suzanne Collins
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What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we…
— John Marsden
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What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it,…
— Daniel Handler
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The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat…
— Stephen King
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She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a…
— Kristin Cashore
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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of…
— Elizabeth Berg
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How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes…
— Dan Chaon
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You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only…
— L.A. Meyer
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Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.
— David Levithan
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Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold…
— Dylan Thomas
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I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.
— Stephen King
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Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If…
— Paullina Simons
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Eloiseis getting married as well.†“Eloise?†Michael asked with some surprise. “Was she even being courted by anyone?†“No,†Francesca said, quickly flipping to the…
— Julia Quinn
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Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will…
— Edgar Allan Poe
Who Wrote These Sheet Quotes
228 authors contributed a total of 245 Sheet Quotes, led by these top contributors: