Watched Quotes
1112 Watched quotes by 916 unique authors
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And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in…
— Scott Westerfeld
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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all…
— Willa Cather
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Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.
— Billie Letts
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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach…
— Nicole Krauss
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At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the…
— Sarah Dessen
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I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter…
— Sarah Dessen
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Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was…
— Joseph Heller
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Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went…
— Alice Sebold
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the…
— Alice Sebold
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I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little.…
— Lloyd Alexander
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in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human.…
— Charlaine Harris
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked…
— Janet Fitch
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She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at…
— Lorrie Moore
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Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,…
— Leonard Cohen
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I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub…
— Alice Sebold
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Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
— Haruki Murakami
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A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest.…
— Kelley Armstrong
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You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.
— Rick Riordan
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was…
— Ben Elton
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice,…
— Alice Sebold
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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