Stood Quotes
1356 quotes by 999 authors
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I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to…
— Bram Stoker
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down.…
— Wendell Berry
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We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood…
— Nicole Krauss
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Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost.…
— J R Ward
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Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold…
— Dylan Thomas
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Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my…
— Cecelia Ahern
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The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked…
— Penelope Lively
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If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
— Luke Davies
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And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other,…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling…
— Edvard Munch
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A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling…
— L.A. Weatherly
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Fighting positions, please, ladies...' 'That's debatable,' Halt said in an undertone to Will as they stood watching... 'The 'fighting' part or the 'ladies' part?' Will…
— John Flanagan
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Kero and Rollo stood over it, slick with blood, both holding knives. ‘Kero, you came? Why?’ asked Naif. ‘Maybe I just needed someone to show…
— Marianne de Pierres
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Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves.…
— Stephen Chbosky
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Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. "Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the coolest thing I've…
— Gordon Korman
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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand…
— Emma Goldman
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A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called…
— Greg Behrendt
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I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he…
— Karen Marie Moning
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