Wire Quotes
337 quotes by 282 authors
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Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb.…
— Truman Capote
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Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.
— James Patterson
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You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all…
— Joni Mitchell
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the…
— Jennifer Egan
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dont be afraid", i murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by th truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, there…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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You can’t have him, okay,†she said from behind the wire barrier. “Mm-hmm,†I whispered. “This is certainly a beautiful neighborhood.†“Yeah, I guess.†“I…
— Darynda Jones
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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they…
— Hilary McKay
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He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that…
— Emma Forrest
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The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here…
— Virginia Woolf
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What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything…
— Ron Rash
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Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into…
— Isaac Marion
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It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and…
— R.L. LaFevers
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Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to…
— Derek Landy
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There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing…
— Alice Munro
Who Wrote These Wire Quotes
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