Taught Him Quotes
49 quotes by 47 authors
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Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In…
— Cassandra Clare
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Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys,…
— Trudi Canavan
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He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.
— Charlaine Harris
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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last…
— Hermann Hesse
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon,…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without…
— Hermann Hesse
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Tabitha blinked innocently. "Why is your consort speaking to me without my having addressed him first?" she asked Kaia. "Have you not taught him the…
— Gena Showalter
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Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were…
— Patrick Ness
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Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.
— Jeaniene Frost
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He knows no other way but ugliness,†Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been…
— Melina Marchetta
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In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life…
— Suzanne Collins
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Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
— Stephen King
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But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve…
— Orson Scott Card
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This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement…
— Justin Torres
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...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
— Nicholas Sparks
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He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been…
— Patricia Briggs
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
— Yann Martel
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I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from…
— Madeline Miller
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I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was…
— Maggie Stiefvater
Who Wrote These Taught Him Quotes
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