Thrown Quotes
886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors
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While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a…
— Lisa Lutz
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Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction…
— Toni Morrison
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He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do…
— Karen Chance
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The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin…
— Irving Stone
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That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always…
— Pema Chodron
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Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another…
— D. J. MacHale
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… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut,…
— Anne Rice
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These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today…
— Ravi Zacharias
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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly,…
— Jane Austen
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The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones
— Jeaniene Frost
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How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.
— William Shakespeare
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There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and…
— Charles Lamb
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I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into…
— Derek Landy
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How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
— Anne Carson
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Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.
— Richelle Mead
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There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn’t like myself…
— Charlaine Harris
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I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but…
— Peter S. Beagle
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They done Wrong Like ink from a busted pen Thrown away 'cause of someone else Used up But he come back Dressed in night Fine…
— P. C. Cast
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Because I don’t feel broken when you look at me. (Acheron) How could you feel broken? (Tory) I was shattered as a child and thrown…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand…
— Conrad Aiken
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Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber…
— C.S. Lewis
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