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Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary. — F.C. Malby

What if one of the times I Changed, when I turned back into myself, I didn't do it quite right? What if this isn't even my true face? — Cassandra Clare

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned? — Thomas Pynchon

the window, turned back again into the room, — Wilkie Collins

It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It — Thomas Bernhard

Katherine turned back to Irena. 'He's — Emma Fraser

She did what she could for him. She kissed him in return. She lost her breath and both her hearts, and finally Turned to smoke and back. — Shana Abe

If my friends or my girlfriend back home saw who I've turned into, I don't think they'd recognize me. And I think that's okay with me. — Hannah Moskowitz

You just slipped down two levels on the hot-o-meter," I informed him snottily. "I'll survive," he shot back and turned away. — Kristen Ashley

Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day. — Anne Graham Lotz

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. — Ritchie Blackmore

My horse went lame about ten days back and I turned him loose. — John Flanagan

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church, — Sidney Sheldon

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor? — Ellen Kushner

He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul. — Jim Thompson

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams? — George R R Martin

He turned back to face them. 'I do make sense to you, don't I? I'm not just imagining that communication is taking place? — Greg Egan

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, Spring back or Fall in. — Dave Beard

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me. — Bob Uecker

turned back into his office, pushing his door closed. "Uh oh," Zwingler said to Casey. "Looks — Robin Burcell

Case turned back, in time to catch the briefest flash of a black rose, its petals sheened like leather, the black stem thorned with bright chrome. — William Gibson

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. — Daniel Suarez

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. — Gertrude Stein

My face filled with the warm glow of embarrassment preventing me from smiling back so I turned and ran away. — Nicci Greene

Voldemort held up a large white hand, and Yaxley subsided at once, watching resentfully as Voldemort turned back to Snape. — J.K. Rowling

And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day. — Megan Kennedy

He turned to face the long, shadowy hall. There was no turning back now. Unless, of course, he decided to turn back. — Lauren Magaziner

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man. — Louis Sullivan

One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern. — J.D. Robb

She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself. — Rose Wynters

To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins) — Elizabeth Spencer

His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire. The — Janette Oke

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. — Terry Pratchett

Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned;
Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes. — Plato

I should never have expected loyalty from a Douglas," he spat out. He turned his back on her and went to the window. — Margaret Mallory

And have you never questioned your faith? Never doubted or turned your back on Him?"
"No. I have not. — Robin LaFevers

My thoughts turned back to my parents and their apparent penchant for being big ol' liars. — Rachel Hawkins

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever. — Darren Shan

The hotel looked as though it had been built back in the fifties, when everything seemed designed to be quickly turned into a bomb shelter. — Carolyn McCray

The last time I saw my mother, she'd turned her back on me like I was the bullet. — Nova Ren Suma

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian. — Brigitte Bardot

One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had disappeared. — Haruki Murakami

You brought my son back and turned him into a beautiful thing. I expect you'll take the same care with that ol' Hoss. — Abigail Roux

He almost turned back to make the walk again, to give her time to appear. He was certain if he tried the same route, everything would work out fine. — Ray Bradbury

At the corner he turned, looking back up at her. She put her palm to the glass. — Laura Kinsale

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. — Denis Diderot

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back. — Wanda Sykes

By making the choice to leave, you're insulting the place that raised you, and made you, and never turned you away. And that place fights you back. — Trevor Noah

I teach you to lie, cheat, and steal, and as soon as my back's turned you wait in line?
-Greg House — House

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned. — Charles Bukowski

Turned me away from him and fitted himself to my back so we lay nested together. — Diana Gabaldon

It should have been you, she told him. Then she turned back to Bran and began to weep, — George R R Martin

You turned your back on me when I needed you. — L.J.Smith

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease. — Masanobu Fukuoka

You failed her when you turned your back on what you are. — Poppet

Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off. — Franklin Gillette

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. — Jonathan Kozol

His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet. — Anne Rice

I said i hate to see u..
and i turned back ...
to hide my tears — Surya Parthi

The crumbling infrastructure turned time back further than any presidential mandate. — Anthony Marra

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: I survived. Isn't that what matters? — Melissa Marr

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. — Eminem

Had I not abruptly (and perhaps deceitfully) taken off and turned my back on them, on all my friends and family, on England itself? — Anonymous

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. Beneath — Julian Barnes

I forced a swift smile, then turned back to my glass, salvation and sanctuary viniferously bundled into one. — Rex Pickett

I've never turned my back on country music. — Reba McEntire

He'd wait. I turned to go into the house and he pulled me back. His hands slid under my shirt and my breath caught. The wire, — Janet Evanovich

It certainly is a puzzle." He turned back to the broken road. "But sometimes to find the answer, you have to take a leap of faith. — Dianna Hardy

3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. — Anonymous

This world has turned into a place where you can get stabbed in the back for trying climbing a ladder. — Jose N. Harris

Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. — George Orwell

No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid] — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Go to the devil Harry." I turned away, then looked back over my shoulder. "But you already have, haven't you? — Susan Higginbotham

I took a step back.
"Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away. — Elizabeth Chandler

sometimes he would wake up choking on his own saliva if he accidentally turned over on his back. — R.J. Palacio

She turned back to inspect a bank of greens: olive, jade, leaf, kiwi, lime, a silver-green like the back of birch leaves, a bright pistachio. — Anne Bartlett

Darling, you can nail my ass anytime, he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table. — Charlaine Harris

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over — Maggie Stiefvater

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. — Nelson Algren

This is all too important." Aenea smiled. "It's all too important. That's the damned problem, isn't it?" She turned her face back to the stars. — Dan Simmons

The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably. — George Santayana

...I only needed one person at my side... one was enough... even if the rest of the world turned its back on me. — Hotaru Odagiri

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one. — Thomas Hughes

I once looked back and saw my future. When I turned around, the past was running scared... — Dean Kutzler

live since your mother passed..." Cogassi burst into tears. He quickly turned his back so the boy couldn't see him — P. Vincent DeMartino

The world is a coward ... It does not change before your face; it waits until your back is turned, and pounces ... — Robert Jackson Bennett

Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. — Ellen Hopkins

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back. — Orson Scott Card

I tried to protest, but Sam turned his back — Mary Ann Shaffer

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly. — Monica Crowley

When we settle back into our selves, everything feels different, like if I turned on the light we'd be bears. — Jandy Nelson

My parents are terrorist scum, and that is why I have turned my back on them." The — Troy Denning

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans

I turned back. Just put one foot in front of the other. Nothing had changed except the color of the road. — Danielle Paige

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly

What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way? — Delia Sherman

I wasn't planning to lead, I was standing in the back and then everyone turned around. — Avery Hiebert

Dumbledore turned back to look out of the fiery window; the sun was now a ruby red glare along the horizon. — J.K. Rowling

Shepley turned back to America. "I'll walk you there." He looked to the suit. "Nobody touches her. I will fucking kill the first person that does. — Jamie McGuire