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If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed (Held Quotes)
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks (Held Quotes)
I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you’re going to wish you held onto longer (Held Quotes)
People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don’t make sense to anyone else (Held Quotes)
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion (Held Quotes)
And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me (Held Quotes)
... and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream (Held Quotes)
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day (Held Quotes)
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion (Held Quotes)
My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored (Held Quotes)
Treat a dog right and he’ll treat you right... Cats is different, but I never held it against them (Held Quotes)
It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted (Held Quotes)
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles (Held Quotes)
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I’d written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death (Held Quotes)
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted (Held Quotes)
I can’t explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency (Held Quotes)
All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness (Held Quotes)
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don’t know. Just so much (Held Quotes)
His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead (Held Quotes)
If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended (Held Quotes)
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn’t raise the gun to my head fast enough (Held Quotes)
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us (Held Quotes)
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives (Held Quotes)
It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a steep slope, but I held the child in my arms firmly and without faltering. Then suddenly my footing gave way... I had enough time to put the child down before plunging into the abyss. The child is our idea. In spite of all obstacles it will prevail (Held Quotes)
It’s not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle (Held Quotes)
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me (Held Quotes)
Yesterday I carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today I cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar (Held Quotes)
He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity (Held Quotes)
There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips (Held Quotes)
And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand (Held Quotes)