228 Quotes About Beautiful-writing

  • Author Muriel Spark
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    There was a wonderful sunset across the distant sky, reflected in the sea, streaked with blood and puffed with avenging purple and gold as if the end of the world had come without intruding on every-day life.

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  • Author Katrina Leno
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    Something had happened in this house.She wasn't sure where the thought came from, when exactly it had been born, but it arrived now like a force, like a storm.

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  • Author Naomi Novik
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    I started to murmur my own spell, but I found myself thinking not of roses but of water, and thirsty ground; building underneath his magic instead of trying to overlay it.

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  • Author Tor Udall
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    Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches to return to its original folds. The paper begins to fray. It tires, rebels.

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  • Author Emma Scott
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    I couldn't speak;I only nodded,and it sent a tear sliding down my cheek,to her hand. "See?" she said with a quavering smile. "You feel so much,Sawyer. So much." She wiped the tear into her palm. "I'm going to keep this," she said,then turned and walked away.

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  • Author Emma Scott
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    I couldn't speak;I only nodded,and it sent a tear sliding down my cheek,to her hand. "See?"she said with a quavering smile. "You feel so much,Sawyer. So much. "She wiped the tear into her palm. "I'm going to keep this,"she said,then turned and walked away.

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  • Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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    And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behavior whistling in the dark.

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