Best Wooden Words
187 Wooden quotes by 167 unique authors
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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He…
— Orson Scott Card
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I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.
— Steven Wright
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I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a…
— Anne Frank
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A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "A breath?" she asked.…
— Garth Nix
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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.
— Shannon Hale
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There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs…
— Tom Stoppard
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Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and…
— Christopher Brookmyre
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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill…
— Jodi Picoult
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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
— Nick Hornby
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I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall,…
— Leonard Cohen
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she…
— Ann Brashares
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out…
— Richard Siken
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I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips.…
— Suzanne Collins
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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a…
— Cassandra Clare
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I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an…
— Dave Barry
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We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers…
— Khalil Gibran
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Are you armed?" Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No." "Lie to me again and I'll put…
— Rachel Caine
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You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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