Turning Quotes
1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors
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Patch's eyes were slate black, darker than a million secrets stacked on top of each other. He dropped his gaze to the ring in his…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned…
— Steve Martin
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Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.
— Cassandra Clare
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There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs…
— Diana Gabaldon
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As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.
— Michael J. Fox
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Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The…
— Ally Carter
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Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
— Terry Goodkind
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Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl…
— Robin Jones Gunn
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My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the…
— Patricia Briggs
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That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind." "Hey, she's not in charge here,"…
— Richelle Mead
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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh…
— Vera Nazarian
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The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political…
— Orhan Pamuk
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I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long…
— Helene Hanff
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An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully…
— Katie MacAlister
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There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a…
— Justina Chen
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When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before…
— Frederick Buechner
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The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since…
— Martin Amis
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This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The…
— Eileen Wilks
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Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it…
— James Patterson
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The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious plan God had…
— Robin Jones Gunn
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Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.
— Stephenie Meyer
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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over…
— Anne Tyler
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Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started…
— Rick Riordan
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