Solid Quotes
974 quotes by 815 authors
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So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions…
— Kiera Cass
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I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on…
— Richard Llewellyn
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could…
— Alan Lightman
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I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.
— Mary Roach
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I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated…
— Suheir Hammad
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His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?" "If you like." "Oh,"…
— Rachel Caine
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You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific.…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly…
— Roald Dahl
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Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great…
— Caroline Knapp
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The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.
— Cornelia Funke
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Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the…
— Shirley Jackson
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Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world…
— Martin Amis
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You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt…
— Lucy Christopher
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You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my…
— Tamora Pierce
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Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any…
— Ian Mcewan
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And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was…
— J R Ward
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