They Lay Quotes

48 quotes by 47 authors

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took… — Steven Wright
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the… — Nicholas Sparks
They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,'… — James Salter
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone… — Ilona Andrews
There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces… — Franz Kafka
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving… — Michael Chabon
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs… — Terry Pratchett
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on… — Ian Mcewan
â€¦but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone… — Anna Godbersen
The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west… — Cormac McCarthy
Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave… — William Faulkner
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to… — Catherynne M. Valente
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says.… — Arthur Miller
Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their… — Orhan Pamuk
Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds. — Kristin Cashore
They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.… — Enid Blyton
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a… — George Orwell
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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