Turning Quotes

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You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… — Jonathan Franzen
Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my… — Louis Sachar
She took kisses like so many coats of paint [â€¦] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if… — Lawrence Durrell
What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality? — Hiromu Arakawa
The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the… — Steve Martin
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of… — Andre Agassi
Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Ã‰owyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the… — Charles Dickens
If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God… — Helen Fielding
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. — Simone Weil
Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade,… — Cornelia Funke
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you… — Catherynne M. Valente
The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume… — J R Ward
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with… — George R. R. Martin
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and… — Pico Iyer
Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so… — Scott Westerfeld
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into? — Simone de Beauvoir
Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like… — Ken Kesey
Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed… — Charles Baudelaire
Yes you're getting your tattoo." I threw my arms around Dad's neck. "Thank you!" "Hey," Mom said. "I'm the one who had to persuade him… — Kelley Armstrong

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