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6171 quotes by 4232 authors
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Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now…
— Patti Smith
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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the…
— Dorothy Allison
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Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the…
— Judith Jamison
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A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front…
— Margaret Haddix
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Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started…
— Rick Riordan
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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but…
— Jodi Picoult
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He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be…
— Rainbow Rowell
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When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it…
— Richelle Mead
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What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
— George Orwell
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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even…
— Douglas Adams
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I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The…
— Cornel West
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...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human…
— Jonathan Tropper
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She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never…
— Tove Jansson
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I let her through. She checked Derek's pulse and his breathing, saying both seemed okay, then leaned down to his face. "Nothing weird on his…
— Kelley Armstrong
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You want to keep looking?" I asked. "Yeah, maybe." "I'll leave you to it, then." I started for the door. "No." He said it quickly,…
— Kelley Armstrong
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When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself…
— Henri Nouwen
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I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that…
— Sharon Creech
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I’m not good at talking,†Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong…
— Haruki Murakami
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For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!
— Charles M. Schulz
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