Usual Quotes
623 Usual quotes by 519 unique authors
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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
— Holly Black
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It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head…
— Cassandra Clare
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How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less…
— Betty Smith
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As usual, no one's ever around when you need them.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her…
— Richelle Mead
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She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb…
— Alice Munro
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King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much…
— Kristin Cashore
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Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have…
— Kim Harrison
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I woke up this morning,†Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing:…
— Eloisa James
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Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all.…
— Susan Cooper
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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first;…
— Nikolai Gogol
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There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's…
— Paula McLain
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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
— Jane Austen
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We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one…
— Rob Lowe
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To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because…
— Graham Greene
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It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that’s all Percy had.
— Rick Riordan
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I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not…
— David Levithan
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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue…
— Terence McKenna
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Dani, Dani, Dani." I flinch. I've never heard anyone say my name so gently. It creeps me all kinds of out. He's towering over me,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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