Softly Quotes
506 quotes by 334 authors
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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Tread softly for you tread on my dreams. -Honor,from the Summer King.
— O.R. Melling
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When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your…
— Angela Carter
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Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
— Terry Pratchett
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Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
— Milan Kundera
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I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned…
— Emily Dickinson
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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied…
— Emily Dickinson
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
— Arthur Rimbaud
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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
— Soren Kierkegaard
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More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle
— C.S. Lewis
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Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.
— Janette Oke
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I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a…
— Markus Zusak
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For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars,…
— Tana French
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
— James Joyce
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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
— Christina Rossetti
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Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken…
— William Carlos Williams
Who Wrote These Softly Quotes
334 authors contributed a total of 506 Softly Quotes, led by these top contributors: