Best Wooden Lines
187 Wooden quotes by 167 unique authors
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He (Jace) glanced down at his bound hands. His wrists and shoulders had gone from aching to hard, stabbing pain, but he didn’t wince as…
— Cassandra Clare
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Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying…
— J. Maarten Troost
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You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger…
— Rachel Caine
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A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a…
— Gregory David Roberts
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The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. “What is it?” she whispered. “It’s a box,” he whispered back. “What kind…
— Derek Landy
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There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not…
— Anne Fadiman
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And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.
— Patricia Cornwell
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Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.…
— Eugene Field
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There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men...…
— Alan Moore
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We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind…
— Emma Donoghue
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And…
— Emily Dickinson
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A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old…
— Keith Richards
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He didn't say anything. Didn't try any of the hugging bullshit, either, which was just as well. Instead, he placed a wooden case next to…
— J R Ward
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He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat…
— John Green
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Hey,” the other said, coming to life. “You’re supposed to be in jail.” Al grinned at him, his white-gloved grip tightening on the wooden handle,…
— Kim Harrison
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I broke that town in half like a wooden match.
— Charles Bukowski
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We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled…
— Dave Eggers
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I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.
— Derek Walcott
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One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung…
— Jacob Grimm
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I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to…
— Carol S. Dweck
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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school…
— Mark Twain
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I love you," he said, his voice almost musical with happiness. She shot him a scowl. "Isn't saying that a bit dangerous considering these aren't…
— C.C. Hunter
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