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I had one elegantly folded cookie - a short paper nerve baked in an ear. — Lorrie Moore

My grandmother
had no time for old,
no matter how her face crinkled
or her days folded like an apron around
her middle. — April Michelle Bratten

Her mind drew him in, hid his image at its center, folded over him, the world slid into place, the chaos ceased. — Jessica Khoury

He framed my face now, and I met his stare in the dark of the car. "I think you're beautiful." My heart folded like an origami swan. — Jenny B. Jones

Take off the glasses too." Lucy folded her hands. "I ... " Fable hesitated. "I'm afraid I can't see without them. I'm dyslexic, if you don't mind. — Cameron Jace

Squatting over it, I pulled it open. My clothes were neatly folded at the top. Robb hadn't stolen anything. — R.L. Stine

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search. — Confucius

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded. — Billy Connolly

The day guy was an aquiline black man about seven feet tall, but slender as a pencil, folded into a desk chair that was far too small for him. — Lee Child

I take that folded moment and I put it in my pocket — Megan Jacobson

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. — Arundhati Roy

Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing. — Christopher Barzak

He'd folded the card into a shape that clearly resembled a lizard, with one spade as its eye. — Virna DePaul

O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet. — Alice Meynell

The music folded over itself like batter being poured from a bowl, one note atop another ... — Sarah J. Maas

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. — W. H. Auden

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. — Aimee Bender

The heavens opened for the sunset to-night. When I had thought the day folded and sealed, came a burst of heavenly bright petals. — Katherine Mansfield

who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind. — Francis Storr

You're right," Ayden said. "Course I am." Blake folded his arms. "About what? — A&E Kirk

She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams — Lauren Beukes

With folded hands I say, give me your support & I will give Surajya. — Narendra Modi

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun — Saul Williams

I'd keep your beauty timeless.
like a flower pressed in a book, yes
I wouldn't let it fade
Folded in the chapters of my mind — Richard L. Ratliff

Nearly 250 daily newspapers folded in the decade after the birth of network radio. — Bill Bryson

I ripped his spine straight out from him and watched as Raz folded into himself like crumpled paper. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --
Likewise a foe's tears. — Thiruvalluvar

On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag. — Geoffrey Wolff

His shirt, tie, and trousers were folded small as an apology on a faded blue-velvet chair. — Rachel Joyce

The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

Her mouth jittered. Her cold arms were folded. Tears were frozen to the book thief's face. — Markus Zusak

Then he folded his arms on his chest, so his biceps strained at the sleeves of his t-shirt, courtesy of the arm curl machine. — Jennifer Echols

Not every woman you meet falls for your good looks"
He folded his arms across his chest and raised an eyebrow. "So you think I look good? — Cindy Roland Anderson

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami. — Gregory Petsko

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Now, — Herman Melville

Don't worry," Milo replied; "I'll just wrap one up for later," and he folded his napkin around "EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST. — Norton Juster

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere. — Lyndon B. Johnson

And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time. — Ian McEwan

I did all the serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check. — Krista Ritchie

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose. — Paul Park

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. — Lord Byron

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately. — Bob Cousy

So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms.
"I'm not fallen," he said roughly.
"Then what are you?"
He shrugged. "Busted. — Vicki Pettersson

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I wonder what the princess did to anger her."

Thorne folded his arms. "I'm not sure you have to do anything to earn Levana's wrath. — Marissa Meyer

You give me thirty-two inches of folded steel and I'll take on anyone you want.
Merit — Chloe Neill

The smell of glazed sugar and folded pride still lingered on her clothes. — Leslye Walton

They all folded their arms across their chests at exactly the same moment. It was a little bit funny, but mostly menacing. And — Stephenie Meyer

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves. — Albert Pike

Sam probably folded his undergarments. — Sarah J. Maas

There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school. — Sharon Olds

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil. — Victor Hugo

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley

How dreadful it would be if everything toppled you and you folded in. — Paula McLain

The stars folded themselves away as the sun peeked above the horizon and cracked open the sky and I kissed him and we laughed and it was good. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It was as if that day was so dark that my mind folded in on itself, protectively, the way a daisy will at night. — Bill Richardson

I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat. — Elinor Wylie

Folded in your arms, I shall sink to sleep; Your hand shall close my eyes for ever, and your lips receive my dying breath. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

I'll be damned," he muttered."Most likely." She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. "And I may be joining you, after what we just did. — Tessa Dare

And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones. — Teri Terry

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I folded Lizzie into small pieces. But the letters did not stop. — Sarah Schmidt

a black guy who met his gaze sullenly, arms folded across his chest. — L.A. Weatherly

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward ... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger — Maggie Stiefvater

When Harry pulled back his sheets, he found his Invisibility Cloak folded neatly underneath them. There was a note pinned to it: Just in case. — J.K. Rowling

My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk. — Stephen Livingston

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away. — Zane Grey

We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be forever united, skin and bone trained to get along. — Aishabella Sheikh

It was a spectral Manhattan, a double-exposed landscape where the past folded back over on itself in overlapping decades. — Joe Schreiber

But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play. — Timothy Zahn

They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn. — John Townsend Trowbridge

They folded clothes, dusted shelves, polished swords; except for the periodic murder attempts, they were perfect hosts. — Will Wight

Her hands were folded just below her breasts, as if in prayer. — Stephen King

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin

Now you've peaked my curiosity." Rachel folded her arms over her chest. — Anonymous

The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers. — Virginia Woolf

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry. — James Vincent McMorrow

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. — John Greenleaf Whittier

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion. — L.M. Montgomery

The atheist joined his hands. It wasn't against the Gods. He smiled, with his hands folded, saw his daughter's in-laws approaching near. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I'll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game. — Pippa DaCosta

My body folded around the shark's head, and I slammed into Fedder. I couldn't breathe. Then, everything went black. - Dylan Murphy — Heidi Peltier

I do not want to be folded
for where I am folded,
there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke

And her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, — Lewis Carroll

His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. — Marcel Proust

Well, well, well," said Aitch Dee, his arms folded across his chest.
"Well, well, well, well," replied Pavel, not to be out welled. — Cuthbert Soup

She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look. — William Gay

How could I not be in love with a man who folded something after strangling me with it? — Nicole Castle

You cannot build an empire hands folded. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, What happens if I do this? — Terry Pratchett

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami. — Linda Barnes

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand. — George Eliot

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued. — Keisha Keenleyside

Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke

She folded her arms across her breasts and looked at me like a lioness. — Ross Macdonald

I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose — Judith Wright

Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form/When within thee the universe is folded?Baha'u'llah — Baha'u'llah