Watched Quotes
1112 Watched quotes by 916 unique authors
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He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes,…
— Christine Feehan
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some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
— Aimee Bender
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I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the…
— Ted Hughes
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Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad…
— Jack Kerouac
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..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for…
— Andrea Gibson
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YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET…
— John Irving
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And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself -…
— Markus Zusak
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Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.
— Peter Lerangis
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Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness,…
— Sylvia Plath
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I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put…
— Joseph Delaney
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This dress makes me look fat," I told Jasmine as we stood near the back of the crowd and watched the last minute preperations fall…
— Richelle Mead
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Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing…
— Paullina Simons
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You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me."…
— Nora Roberts
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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he…
— Orhan Pamuk
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He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
— Markus Zusak
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She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it…
— Sarah MacLean
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The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a…
— Charles Bukowski
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I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing…
— Stephen Chbosky
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We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar.…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some…
— Rachel Caine
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No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them.…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. I remember when you sang in the music…
— Suzanne Collins
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The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they…
— Jonathan Stroud
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We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something…
— Kim Harrison
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