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675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body… — Lois Lowry
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a… — Franz Kafka
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum? — James Patterson
If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna,… — Michael J. Fox
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as… — David Levithan
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing,… — Ray Bradbury
Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just… — Nicholas Sparks
I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought -… — Jodi Picoult
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled. — Bette Greene
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her,… — John Green
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was… — Aimee Friedman
I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison… — Augusten Burroughs
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. — Brian Selznick
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. — D. H. Lawrence
And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up… — Haruki Murakami
It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when… — Ron Rash
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. — Colum McCann
The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover… — Charlotte Bronte
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a… — Sue Monk Kidd

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