Strands Quotes
78 Strands quotes by 67 unique authors
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Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous…
— Pablo Neruda
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This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are…
— Libba Bray
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Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic…
— Lisa Kleypas
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
— Edwidge Danticat
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As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but…
— John Green
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Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against…
— Moira J. Moore
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My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
— Walter Dean Myers
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Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of…
— Steven Hall
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NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are…
— Muriel Barbery
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A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
— Margaret Atwood
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The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can…
— Elliot Perlman
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On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk…
— John Connolly
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Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so…
— Suzanne Collins
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What about your freedom?" he whispered in her ear over a minute later, bracing his hands palms down on the wall beside her head. He…
— Nalini Singh
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The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility.…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
— Scott Westerfeld
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Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air.…
— Ilona Andrews
Who Wrote These Strands Quotes
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