Stood Quotes
1356 quotes by 999 authors
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Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the…
— Steve Martin
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Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of…
— Stephen King
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Those deep hazel eyes held his and didn't blink. "You'd be amazed what I would do to keep you alive." Abruptly, V's mouth opened, his…
— J R Ward
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For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His…
— Cassandra Clare
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I'm sorry I stood there like a half-wit, Count Petroff," she told him matter-of-factly, "but I was a bit--surprised. After all, it's not everyday that…
— Johanna Lindsey
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It would’ve been easier to die. It’s not that I want to be dead now. I don’t. I have a lot in my life that…
— Gayle Forman
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Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you…
— Cassandra Clare
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I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’…
— John Irving
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He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his…
— Cassandra Clare
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
— John Milton
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So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you…
— Suzanne Collins
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I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I…
— J D Salinger
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Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there…
— Neal Shusterman
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I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches…
— Shirley Jackson
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we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for…
— C.S. Lewis
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For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these…
— Terry Pratchett
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He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I…
— Veronica Roth
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