Wrenched Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe…
— James Buchan
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He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear…
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,
— Vikram Seth
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Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is…
— C.D. Wright
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Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away…
— Audrey Hepburn
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If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made…
— Deborah Feldman
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Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
— Annie Proulx
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My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made…
— Robin Hobb
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In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the…
— Rick Riordan
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Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way…
— Arundhati Roy
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He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh…
— Kelley Armstrong
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If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return…
— Ellen Hopkins
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How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and…
— Sylvia Plath
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Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched…
— Arundhati Roy
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What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of…
— Paul Harding
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We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go…
— Linda Lavin
Who Wrote These Wrenched Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Wrenched Quotes as follows: