Struck Quotes
675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors
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A cat will blink when struck with a hammer.
— George Carlin
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He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her…
— Laini Taylor
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This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it…
— Laini Taylor
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It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep…
— Nick Hornby
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…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly…
— Rene Descartes
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Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and…
— Kristin Cashore
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Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a…
— Patrick deWitt
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Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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That she had somehow taken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was…
— Terry Pratchett
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Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts…
— Naomi Novik
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It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
— John Buchan
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events…
— Dean Koontz
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
— Anne Tyler
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Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same…
— Terry Pratchett
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He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.
— Sarah MacLean
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He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the…
— Derek Landy
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I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up…
— Lauren Oliver
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One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out…
— Diane Arbus
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How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!" "I'm not…
— Kiersten White
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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle…
— Suzanne Collins
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It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind…
— Annie Barrows
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It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he…
— Jo Nesbo
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