Stretching Quotes

233 Stretching quotes by 207 unique authors

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer.… — Oswald Chambers
Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you… — Lauren Groff
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like… — Sylvia Plath
His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that… — Rebecca West
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was… — Patricia Highsmith
The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh,… — Libba Bray
He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes… — Sarah Dessen
Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight,… — Patrick Ness
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the… — Sarah Dessen
Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye — Maggie Stiefvater
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo. — JoÃ« Bousquet
As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than… — Sarah Dessen
Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife… — Sabrina Jeffries
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They… — Jack Kerouac
Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and… — Justin Cronin
The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if… — Chuck Palahniuk
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching.… — Bret Easton Ellis
Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing… — Jeaniene Frost
The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark… — Stephenie Meyer
We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers… — Khalil Gibran

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