Quotes of: Took Keyword

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

Shaping the dream

I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.

Succubus Dreams

My feathery imagination took flight when I saw this photo. I’ll let you imagine what I imagined. 

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

Saving June

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

Norwegian Wood

I told myself that it took forty-two facial muscles to frown and only four to stretch out my arm and bitch-slap the witch.

To Love, Honour And Betray

No wonder people took sex so seriously, or not seriously enough at all. Sex addled your wits and stole your body. It was like being lost and found all at once.

Lick

A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.

Life Knocks

Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversation again. “It is a little lonely in the desert. . . ” “It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.

The Little Prince

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Lisey's Story

He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.

Slices

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

Snatched

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

Snowbound

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Self Reliance

People tell me I have a winning smile, but it’s just not true. My grin took silver at last year’s Facial Expression Olympics. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

The other day I found 20 dollars. It was just lying in a wallet I took from some guy’s pocket.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

Secret Son

Rose took my nose, I suppose,” he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. “And it really blows.

The Scorch Trials