Tight Quotes
1066 Tight quotes by 806 unique authors
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Can you keep a secret?” “Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain’t nothing going to get out.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
— Alexander Gordon Smith
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Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just…
— David Mitchell
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But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected…
— Caroline B. Cooney
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I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark…
— Charles Baudelaire
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When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep.…
— Natsuo Kirino
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
— Deb Caletti
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
— Richard P. Feynman
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Tod's eyes widened and his irises swirled in tight twists of blue. "Well, I don't see that I have much of a choice, considering that's…
— Rachel Vincent
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Matt?" "Yeah?" "You okay?" "Working on it." His voice sounded unusually tight. "I thought you said you did this a lot." "Yeah. I do. But…
— Jill Shalvis
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In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass…
— Marya Hornbacher
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He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a…
— Abbi Glines
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Don't go alone," Lend said, his voice tight with concern. "I'll take Jack." "Oh, wonderful, take the other psychotic guy in your life to go…
— Kiersten White
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On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the…
— Shirley Jackson
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He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him…
— Juliet Marillier
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Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the…
— Walter Mosley
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?"…
— Ellen Hopkins
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If you’re being punished,” Clary said, “then so am I. Because all those things you felt, I felt them too, but we can’t—we have to…
— Cassandra Clare
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Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's…
— Paolo Giordano
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I think the first thing we need to talk about is you not running around in tight T-shirts and yoga pants.” “Fine. I’ll stop doing…
— Julie James
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I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him. His grip on…
— Sylvia Day
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All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He caught me to him, his arms banded tight around me. His face pressed into my throat. "Where do we go from here?" I held…
— Sylvia Day
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I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.
— Tammara Webber
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