Thrown Quotes

886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can… — Jandy Nelson
My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely… — Robin McKinley
I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and… — Gayle Forman
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of… — Paulo Coelho
I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and… — Lisa Kleypas
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm… — Aimee Friedman
I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into… — Sarah Dessen
Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… — David Foster Wallace
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others… — Simone de Beauvoir
The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the… — Maggie Stiefvater
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is… — Howard Pyle
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand… — Zora Neale Hurston
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against… — Maggie Stiefvater
If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is… — Cintra Wilson
But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. — Gilles Deleuze
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and… — Nicole Krauss
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book. — Richard Dawkins
Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do… — Suzanne Collins
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.… — Oscar Wilde
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less… — Suzanne Collins
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of… — Alice Hoffman
As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused… — David Nicholls

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