Snapped Quotes
172 quotes by 120 authors
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand,…
— Jim Butcher
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that…
— Carl Jung
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Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers…
— Ginger Rogers
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Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow…
— Tom Robbins
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The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded,…
— Neil Gaiman
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He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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[about his dress robes...] I’m never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never." "Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out…
— Cornelia Funke
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I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take…
— Khaled Hosseini
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The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I…
— Philip K. Dick
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I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
— Sylvia Plath
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But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no…
— Jane Yolen
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There aren't any syringes." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a…
— J R Ward
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It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d…
— Claudia Gray
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A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her…
— Rick Riordan
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And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
— John Green
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OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be…
— Michael Scott
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I thought you were all-seeing.†All-knowing, not all-seeing!†he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!
— Kelley Armstrong
Who Wrote These Snapped Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 172 Snapped Quotes, led by these top contributors: