Table Quotes
1747 quotes by 1379 authors
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This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on…
— Charlaine Harris
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He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had…
— Joseph Heller
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For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who…
— David Levithan
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You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.
— Jim Butcher
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I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds;…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for…
— David Sedaris
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Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire…
— Rachel Caine
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language,…
— Yann Martel
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she…
— Anne Lamott
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You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on…
— Wilhelm Reich
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GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the…
— Judith Martin
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Syn may be too much of a gentleman to hit you, but I’m not. I’m not only ashamed to call you human, I’m completely disgusted…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
— Brandon Sanderson
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You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has,…
— Lora Leigh
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People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on…
— Connie Willis
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Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table. "What's doing with…
— J R Ward
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All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More…
— Suzanne Collins
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My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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