They Kept Quotes

85 They Kept quotes by 82 unique authors

...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in… — Angela Carter
She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the… — Jerry Spinelli
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell. — Raegan Butcher
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were… — Terry Pratchett
...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always… — Haruki Murakami
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when… — Kristin Hannah
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing… — Stephen Chbosky
What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her… — Steig Larsson
You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after… — Ally Carter
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness.… — Brennan Manning
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it. — Libba Bray
You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he… — Chris Colfer
Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma’at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made… — Rick Riordan
No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities… — Cassandra Clare
If you got more than one letter from somebody who said they hated you, it meant they kept watching. — Trevor Moore
Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying… — Sally Phillips
Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the… — Clayton Christensen
There were a great many in vaudeville - people who never quite came through. But they had their place, and they filled it. They kept… — Alfred Lunt
I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many guys could get it close… — Lee Trevino
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right… — Stockwell Day
I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind… — Brandon Routh

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