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629 Spokes quotes by 494 unique authors

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell… — Sue Monk Kidd
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it… — C.S. Lewis
My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke… — Dr. Seuss
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him. — Susanna Clarke
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. — Cormac McCarthy
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention… — Charles Dickens
The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not… — Jack Kerouac
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart… — Evelyn Waugh
Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure… — C.S. Lewis
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds… — Terry Pratchett
Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on… — Bob Dylan
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face.… — William Goldman
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots… — Mark Twain
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward… — Steven Galloway
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. — Voltaire
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart… — Gabriela Mistral
While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that… — Henri Nouwen
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of… — Cormac McCarthy
And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people… — Michael Ende
When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that… — William P. Young
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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