Wave Quotes
1462 quotes by 1065 authors
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This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times. A voice that…
— Cassandra Clare
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Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in its green and…
— Unknown Author
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If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts…
— Virginia Woolf
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I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front…
— Pablo Neruda
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I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I…
— Bruce Lee
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With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring…
— Anais Nin
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I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore, moving faster and…
— John Flanagan
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One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know…
— Jenny Lawson
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The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of…
— John Muir
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We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of yourself is to…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the…
— Paulo Coelho
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I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once…
— Veronica Roth
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
— Elvis Presley
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Wave to the nice tourists, Sparkle. I promise it won't cause pestilence and firestorms." Elena bit the inside of her cheek at Aodhan's glare-she'd never…
— Nalini Singh
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Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him…
— Marie Lu
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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over…
— Donna Tartt
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Surfing?†he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone…
— Rick Riordan
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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my…
— Zona Gale
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