You Open Quotes
300 You Open quotes by 245 unique authors
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I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as…
— Charles Bukowski
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Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
— Harlan Coben
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When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and…
— Pema Chodron
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Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and…
— Annie Dillard
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Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on…
— David Almond
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Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd…
— Douglas Coupland
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When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's…
— Elizabeth Scott
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Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away…
— Jeanette Winterson
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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail…
— Jodi Picoult
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It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What…
— Elliot Perlman
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal…
— Yann Martel
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At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to…
— Rudyard Kipling
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even…
— Haruki Murakami
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Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a…
— Frances Mayes
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I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
— Libba Bray
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Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.
— Daniel Handler
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One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And…
— Maureen Medved
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Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually…
— James Patterson
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The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle…
— David Levithan
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I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop…
— Ned Vizzini
Who Wrote These You Open Quotes
245 authors contributed a total of 300 You Open Quotes, led by these top contributors: