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232 Slipped quotes by 184 unique authors

We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she… — Peter Lerangis
He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping… — N.K. Jemisin
A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada. — Rick Riordan
But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For all your talk, you don't know the first thing about love." Tears spilled over her lashes and rolled down her cheeks. She slipped the… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms — Don DeLillo
Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at… — L.A. Weatherly
Cookie dropped her purse and tried to catch it midair. In the process, she knocked over a vase. When she lunged for the vase, she… — Darynda Jones
Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their… — Laura Hillenbrand
You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away… — Kathryn Lasky
Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian… — Gordon Korman
And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. — John Green
She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand and opened it… — Paolo Giordano
as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us. — Jane Hirshfield
Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger.… — Lauren DeStefano
His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling. "Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body… — Cassandra Clare
Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow… — Jennifer Estep
But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really… — E. M. Forster
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready… — Hermann Hesse
She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which,… — Stephen King
Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs. — Catherynne M. Valente
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new… — Albert Camus
At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we… — Holly Black
Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment… — Paolo Giordano

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