Lap Quotes - Page 16

• Asleep in lap of legends old.

  John Keats

  Legends

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.72

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• You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Horse, Children, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.440, Hamilton Books

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• And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug. Then he jumped, chair swiveling so fast I nearly went flying. I heard footsteps in the hall and I scrambled off his lap just as Simon swung in, breathing heavily, like he'd come running.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Running, Dad, Heart

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• I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap.

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Stupid, Mean

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• You okay? (Grace) Oh, yeah. I’m just fine considering the fact I’ve walked through burning fires that hurt less than my groin does right now. (Julian) I said I was sorry. Okay, can you reach the pedals? (Grace) I’d like to reach your pedals…(Julian) Julian! Would you concentrate? (Grace) All right. I’m concentrating. (Julian) I don’t mean on my breasts. (He dropped his hungry gaze to her lap.) Or there, either. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Sorry, Mean

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• I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu’s lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp for munchies. “Dude.” I sat up groggily. “Not cool.” “But he gave you a lovely hairdo,” Sadie said. “Agh-agh!” Khufu agreed.

  Rick Riordan

  Sleep, Eye, Khufu

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• Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Car, Enjoy, Qualifying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hands, Helping Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she'd held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I'd always thought I couldn't remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.

  Sarah Dessen

  Grandma, Eye, Sky

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.166, Penguin

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• Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Angel, Wicked, Kind

  Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “The Truth About Lord Stoneville”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• You could have gotten a car with GPS," Total said helpfully. Yes," I said "Or we could have brought along a dog that doesn't talk." I gave Angel a pointed look, and she smiled, well, angelically, at me. Total huffed, offended at me and climbed into her lap.

  James Patterson

  Dog, Angel, Gps

  James Patterson (2011). “Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Home, Writing

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• It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Home, Heart

  Orson Scott Card (2008). “Ender in Exile”, p.403, Macmillan

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• Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.” Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does leave me out.” Colin : “Exactly. With agreeable women, I’m unendingly considerate. Gallant even.” Sugar Beth : “But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?” Colin : “I wouldn’t exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded.” She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Weakness, Doe, Gloves

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• It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"

  Chris Pine

  Fall, Perspective, Positive Outlook

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It was a battle all day with our M&M's Camry. I don't know why, we just didn't have what we needed. We never seemed to have the ticket we needed today. We got better all day, which was a positive and salvaged something out of nothing -- so all things considering it was okay. It's so late in the year, you're just running laps now and getting what you can get and seeing if you can win next weekend at Homestead to finish the year.

  Kyle Busch

  Running, Weekend, Winning

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• He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was before. But, those first few laps, damn, it's loose! JUNIOR NO LIKEY!

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Believe, Two, Car

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• When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Moving, Fall

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.309, Transaction Publishers

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• Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

  Patti Davis

  Life Lesson, Grief, Bereavement

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• Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.

  Imtiaz Dharker

  Habit, Break

  Imtiaz Dharker (1988). “Purdah: And Other Poems”

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• I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

  Keith Thurman

  Boxing, Been In Love, Has Beens

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• The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sex, Real, Struggle

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• I believe in fate and what's meant to be mine will be mine, and if it's not in my lap, then it's not mine.

  Cameron Diaz

  Believe, Fate, Mines

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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