Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 330 authors

You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You… — Amy Tan
This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we… — Joss Whedon
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.… — W. Somerset Maugham
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let… — Elizabeth Gilbert
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is… — Khaled Hosseini
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they… — Lauren Groff
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly… — Ian Mcewan
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and… — Gregory Maguire
Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a… — Patrick Rothfuss
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves… — Marilynne Robinson
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked. — Jacqueline Carey

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