Best Stains Lines
224 Stains quotes by 190 unique authors
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I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how…
— Margaret Atwood
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I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a…
— Bill Bryson
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
— Alice Sebold
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...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in…
— Thomas Hardy
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The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an…
— Alice Sebold
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Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on…
— James Patterson
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My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward.…
— Jodi Picoult
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My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in…
— Karen Chance
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
— Oscar Wilde
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I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains…
— Douglas Coupland
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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
— C.S. Lewis
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The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful…
— Jodi Picoult
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Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our…
— Greta Garbo
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You worthless sonofabitch. You should never have been anything more than a cum stain! (Stryker)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I’ll bet there’s a big stain there. (Tee)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and…
— Robert Graves
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Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.
— Johnny Cash
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That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow…
— Robert Browning
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There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why…
— Samuel R. Delany
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The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the…
— Khalil Gibran
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Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange…
— Derrick Jensen
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