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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
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
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, Spring back or Fall in.
— Dave Beard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off.
— Franklin Gillette
The crumbling infrastructure turned time back further than any presidential mandate.
— Anthony Marra
When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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
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
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
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
When we settle back into our selves, everything feels different, like if I turned on the light we'd be bears.
— Jandy Nelson
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
