Quotes of: Middle-ground Keyword

Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter," she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed.

The Roar

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.

The Mapmaker and the Ghost

What's it like? Being married? Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Moloka'i

We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

Magic Slays

How would it be after the last sentence? The last sentence he had always feared and from the middle of a book, he had always been tormented by the thought that there would inevitably be a last sentence.

Night Train to Lisbon

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Libriomancer

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

Let's Face It

Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.

Lawn of Excluded Middle

Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

The Last Song

I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots. There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

In the beginning we seek truth. In the middle we seek reason. In the end we seek peace.

Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations

I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow.

Slotback Rhapsody

Check it out. She's scandalously popular, insanely beautiful, and obviously in the middle of some emotional shoot-out to consent to date the human Tator Tot.

Some Kind of Wonderful

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

The Pull

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Pride and Prejudice

I am Love. You are Love. All that is real is Love. This is worth remembering, especially when you seem to be stuck in the middle of a challenging experience.

Raising Angels

He was trying to tell me something." Derek snorted. "Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

The Reckoning