Softly Quotes
506 quotes by 334 authors
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Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I…
— Steven Erikson
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Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so…
— Suzanne Collins
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Do you like my working persona?" Saiman asked softly. "An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say?" Aren't we pleased with ourselves.…
— Ilona Andrews
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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when…
— Orson Scott Card
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Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the…
— Juliet Marillier
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Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.
— Christopher Pike
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The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all,…
— Liz Kessler
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The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and Justin thought it…
— Rosemary Sutcliff
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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Just once" Blay said softly. "Do it just once. So I'll know what it's like.
— J R Ward
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Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one.…
— Judith McNaught
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Hey,†he said softly. He moved closer to the bars, pressing his face between them. “I always said you were jailbait, but this is ridiculous.
— Rachel Caine
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You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?
— Gayle Forman
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You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys…
— Ray Bradbury
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Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Do you know,' he said again softly, addressing his hands, 'what it is to love someone, and never - never! - be able to give…
— Diana Gabaldon
Who Wrote These Softly Quotes
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