Wander Quotes
839 quotes by 636 authors
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
— Virginia Woolf
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But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a…
— Sonya Sones
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It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of…
— John Hodgman
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Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as…
— Joseph Roth
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But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with…
— Truman Capote
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through…
— Charles Dickens
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I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally…
— Darren Shan
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Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most…
— Nicole Krauss
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Two Windclan apprentices were wandering toward them. Fireheart twitched his ears to warn his friends they had an audience. "Oh, yes," meowed Ravenpaw, raising his…
— Erin Hunter
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... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
— Theodore Roethke
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a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see…
— George R. R. Martin
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out…
— Carson McCullers
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She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at…
— Katherine Paterson
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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals…
— Cormac McCarthy
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They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me.…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at…
— Gena Showalter
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Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful this time. Me (Ilona): ... ~A little later~ Kid…
— Ilona Andrews
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