Tiny Quotes
1388 quotes by 1044 authors
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Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long,…
— Tove Jansson
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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words…
— Anne Rice
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The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms…
— Kate Morton
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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you…
— Terry Pratchett
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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these…
— Sarah Dessen
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What are letters?†“Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read.…
— Neal Stephenson
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The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit…
— Robin McKinley
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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and…
— Suzanne Collins
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I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you." You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful…
— Lucy Christopher
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Then what happens? Diana demanded “Then were hit with massive doeses of radiation. It’s invisible, but its like someone is shooting tiny bullets at you.…
— Michael Grant
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Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky into the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with a perplexed expression…
— Ilona Andrews
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Should've thought of that before you told my ex-girlfriend I eat live kittens for breakfast." A tiny twinge of guilt. Then the cat wondered what…
— Nalini Singh
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If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
— David Foster Wallace
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Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
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You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get…
— David Levithan
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I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a…
— Noel Fielding
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The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of…
— Francesca Lia Block
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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
— Jeannette Walls
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Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,…
— Mary Gaitskill
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