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Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
— Dani Shapiro
Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
— Enid Blyton
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
— W.G. Sebald
When the old king saw this he foamed with rage, stared wildly about, flung himself on the ground and died.
— Andrew Lang
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
— Zora Neale Hurston
A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.
— Paulo Coelho
If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.
— Frederick Lenz
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
— Mark Twain
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. — Stephen Leacock
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
— John Gay
The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Finally, he flung his hat on the ground in disgust and fumed, "Are these the men with whom I am to defend America?
— Ron Chernow
He stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.
— Patrick McGrath
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
— Steven Erikson
Some people think it's comforting to imagine being flung over a rainbow when you die, grabbed by your ankles by a bluebird, and swung into the void.
— Maria Dahvana Headley
A little girl lay flung back in her mother's lap as though sleep had struck her with a blow.
— Eudora Welty
Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.
— Kim Edwards
They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.
— Dorothy Dunnett
There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
— Edwina Currie
Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath.
— Annie Dillard
Great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Fucking Julia." I flung my long hair back over my shoulder, hiding the fresh bite. Twenty-eight years old with a hickie. Awesome.
— Eliza Lentzski
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...
— Vita Sackville-West
Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. The ripples spread in widening circles.
— Francine Rivers
I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
— Rachel Sklar
Embrace this," she snarled, and flung a hidden dagger from her vambrace at his head.
— Sarah J. Maas
As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.
— Oscar Wilde
He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
— Gautama Buddha
By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.
— Rebecca Makkai
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.
— Kahlil Gibran
I am always will be- the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of improbable dreams.
— The Doctor
There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell.
— Robin McKinley
I dance. I ripple. I am thrown over you like a net of light. I lie quivering flung over you.
— Virginia Woolf
What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.
— Patricia Highsmith
Are you saying that your in love with me?""My God, yes!" He flung his arms wide in exasperation. — M. Leighton
Memoir done right is an art, a made thing. It's not just raw reportage flung splat on the page.
— Mary Karr
Every important journey I have undertaken has begun the same: with crushed sheets, a balled pillow, flung open books, and not a wink of sleep.
— Josiah Bancroft
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
— Robert Browning
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
She shot across the rug, flung the door back open, and yelled into the parking lot. "I hope you choke on your blood vegetables!
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.
— Matt Smith
Cunt" and "traitor" were flung at her as well, and now and
— George R R Martin
He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.
— Jack London
Groucho Marx This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.
— Groucho Marx
Fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon - so like a corkscrew now - was flung
— Herman Melville
To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
The world turned and flung me.
— David Iserson
Health is a habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
— Mark Twain
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
— Faith Baldwin
I get my share of mud flung my way, but the secret is to dance in the rain and the mud will wash away.
— Philip Catshill
Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.
— Wallace Stegner
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
— Jean Houston
The horses came to an abrupt halt, jolting the children so that they were torn from their seats and flung together like trapped trout.
— Jessica Lawson
If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.
— Robert Runcie
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
— William Butler Yeats
wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary
— Donna Tartt
This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.
— Jodi Picoult
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
— Leo Tolstoy
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to. Flight.
— Gene Wolfe
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills ... — Walt Whitman
Spirits flung down from heaven at the beginning of time still stalked the earth, hunting human prey;
— Tom Holland
Depends on if this is an ass chewing session or a rational discussion. I've had enough shit flung at me today that I'm feeling like a monkey.
— Lorelei James
But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
— Ann Brashares
throwing himself into a chair in a manner which implied that he would rather have flung it at the head of his host.
— Alexandre Dumas
He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder.
— Kurt Vonnegut
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
— Edward M. Lerner
Is anger always just fear flung outward at the world? Can anger ever be a fuel for right action? Can anger make good? We
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it.
— Anne Frank
Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta.
— James Tiptree Jr.
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
— Bradley Chicho
My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space.
— Patricia Highsmith
