Trace Quotes
460 quotes by 403 authors
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Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
— Farley Mowat
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When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying.…
— Karen Marie Moning
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So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge…
— Italo Calvino
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I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak…
— Osamu Dazai
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One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?†Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and…
— Nalini Singh
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You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for…
— Cassandra Clare
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A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to…
— Damon Galgut
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You killed my Dad." Any trace of kindness or sympathy vanished from Rixon's eyes. "Well this is awkward.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of…
— Neil Gaiman
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How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the…
— Mark Strand
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Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes…
— James Hilton
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How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper,…
— George Orwell
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Ever had a woman say no to you, Dmitri?†“Once.†He turned the corner with a smile that made her want to cup his face,…
— Nalini Singh
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Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of…
— Terry Pratchett
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the…
— Victor Hugo
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There…
— Penn Jillette
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No,†he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.†Elena laughed at…
— Nalini Singh
Who Wrote These Trace Quotes
403 authors contributed a total of 460 Trace Quotes, led by these top contributors: