Swept Quotes

316 Swept quotes by 269 unique authors

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where… — J.R.R. Tolkien
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… — Robin McKinley
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I… — Tennessee Williams
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up… — David Benioff
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a… — Margaret Atwood
Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. — Arundhati Roy
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? — Margaret Mitchell
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw… — Charles Dickens
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On… — Nicole Krauss
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance… — Megan Whalen Turner
A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother.… — Robert Cormier
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even… — Charlotte Bronte
The reality was that while they might have eternity, there was violence on the horizon. And in the present. She wasn't intending on ignoring it.… — Melissa Marr
I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those… — Clive Barker
King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was set and determined.… — John Flanagan
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)… — William Goldman
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and… — Robert Graves
...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger. — Margaret Atwood
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what do I owe… — Cassandra Clare
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole… — Charles Simic
‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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269 authors contributed a total of 316 Swept Quotes, led by these top contributors: