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675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart… — Evelyn Waugh
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.… — George Orwell
And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember… — Bret Easton Ellis
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. — Jeanette Winterson
...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest… — Katherine Paterson
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all… — Laurie R. King
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really… — Barbara Pym
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always… — Charlotte Bronte
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
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions… — Margaret Atwood
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb… — Michael Chabon
The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career. — Markus Zusak
The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a… — Jeaniene Frost
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind. — Kurt Vonnegut
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... — Nicholas Sparks
As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for… — Colm Toibin
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning! — J.R.R. Tolkien
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative… — John Keats
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once — Mikhail Bulgakov
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their… — George Orwell
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries

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