Talked Quotes
998 Talked quotes by 842 unique authors
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Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked…
— Nora Roberts
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More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago…
— Richard Dawkins
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Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd…
— Alice Sebold
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She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she…
— A. S. Byatt
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On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.
— Nicholas Sparks
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People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign…
— Holly Black
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You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with…
— John Kennedy Toole
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Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. "You…
— Rick Riordan
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We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy half…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.
— Charlaine Harris
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For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things…
— Margaret Mahy
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On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I…
— Chris Cleave
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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that…
— Amy Tan
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He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are…
— Cassandra Clare
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Have you talked to North?" he said. "Yes," she said. "I asked him to get us cable." "I wish you weren't talking to him." "I'd…
— Jennifer Crusie
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Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's…
— Chris Rose
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Sorry,” she said, “I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.” “Explain protocol,” Nell said.…
— Neal Stephenson
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He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.
— Janet Fitch
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I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about…
— Wendell Berry
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not…
— Richard Wright
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A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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