Stray Quotes

174 quotes by 160 authors

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it… — Stephenie Meyer
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you… — Michael Parenti
Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance… — Kamila Shamsie
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall… — Rabindranath Tagore
it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100… — Tom Waits
Never stray from the Way. — Miyamoto Musashi
Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that.… — Ai Yazawa
Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no… — Elizabeth Hoyt
I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That… — John le Carre
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of… — Paula McLain
You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote! — Rachel Vincent
You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first? — Kevin Hearne
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go… — Michael Cunningham
His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far. — Becca Fitzpatrick
The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the… — Jodi Picoult
I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and… — Thomas Hardy
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? — Charlotte Bronte
Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my… — William Shakespeare
Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of… — Michael Chabon
I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I… — Franny Billingsley

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160 authors contributed a total of 174 Stray Quotes, led by these top contributors: