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We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations.
— Kandi Steiner
Good. Well. Shit." Locke rubbed his gloved hands together. "I guess that's that. I'm all out of rhetorical flourishes.
— Scott Lynch
He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.
— Lauren DeStefano
He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.
— Steven Erikson
He rubbed his feet back and forth on the library carpet and when she walked by, he touched her with the tip of his index finger
— Jonathan Goldstein
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
— Ian McKellen
Q sucked in a breath, his face darkening as he rubbed the front of his trousers. Goddammit, do you have to be so fucking tempting?
— Pepper Winters
Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily.
"No."
"Elvis?"
"I told you, it's supernatural. — Christopher Moore
"No."
"Elvis?"
"I told you, it's supernatural. — Christopher Moore
In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.
— Russell Wilson
My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind
— Tana French
it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.
— Nicci French
Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.
— Joe Abercrombie
Amy, honey." He rubbed my arm gently, as if telling me bad news. "You shouldn't listen to me. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
She put her hands to her face and rubbed, then dug her fingers into her scalp, trying to massage some life back into her tired brain.
— Thea Harrison
He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pain jabbed Janco where the lower half of his right ear used to be. He rubbed the scar. "Now, I'm not a genius - "
"Got that right," Ari mumbled. — Maria V. Snyder
"Got that right," Ari mumbled. — Maria V. Snyder
Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him
— Brian Lara
Yawning, Aden rubbed his eyes, blinked three more times, and yawned again. "Without breakfast? I never run away on an empty stomach.
— Jack Lewis Baillot
he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. As
— Jules Verne
Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!
— Stephen Richards
You have underwear."
"I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you try it on?"
"Nah. Just rubbed it against my face. — Linda Howard
"I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you try it on?"
"Nah. Just rubbed it against my face. — Linda Howard
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.
— Anthony Liccione
Basilard, can you cover our trail?
Basilard rubbed his head dubiously. Maldynado, Books, and Akstyr leave trail like marching army. — Lindsay Buroker
Basilard rubbed his head dubiously. Maldynado, Books, and Akstyr leave trail like marching army. — Lindsay Buroker
That's great. You have family." Livia rubbed Blake's arm.
"You're my family," Blake said coldly. — Debra Anastasia
"You're my family," Blake said coldly. — Debra Anastasia
Mm!" Joey rubbed his stomach. "I love me some root juice in the morning. Enlivens the senses!
— Jessica Khoury
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
— Beatrix Potter
He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.
— Octavia E. Butler
A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The edges of her voice had been rubbed thin by anxiety.
— Cassandra Clare
I rubbed my face to keep from smiling, but something inside me eased. Dachshunds have that effect. "Merowp,
— Delia James
Annabeth rubbed the clay beads on her necklace, the way she does when she's thinking. She looked beautiful. But I digress.
— Rick Riordan
Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.
— Diane Ackerman
They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions ...
— Kate Morton
We're going to need a bigger skyscraper." She rubbed her eyes with a thumb and forefinger. "Part of me can't believe I just said that.
— Thea Harrison
Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass. — Donald Hall
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass. — Donald Hall
I rubbed my thumb against the handle of the knife that no longer set me free from reality, but instead kept me from reality.
— Tiffany Lovering
Neukom, the Giants' buttoned-down owner, finally found Ross and vigorously rubbed his bald head while screaming jibberish nobody could understand
— Andrew Baggarly
I rubbed my eyes, getting some eyeliner on my fingers. For what I paid for eyeliner, it shouldn't come off that easily.
— J.A. Konrath
[John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place
— Charles Dickens
The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
— Martin Bashir
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
— Vinoba Bhave
The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.
— Brooke Langton
Wraith rubbed his hands together in cheesy horror-movie glee. "Join us or die." He grinned. "I've always wanted to say that.
— Larissa Ione
rubbed his temples. He hated these exercises.
— K.F. Breene
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
— Oswald Chambers
daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted.
— Kristin Hannah
My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.
— Tony Parker
That's the first time you've said my name." He rubbed their lips together. "Whisper it again in my ear, then I'll go.
— Tessa Bailey
Look, Adam said. He rubbed a finger over the dust of the back window. Next to a Blink-182 sticker was an Aglionby decal.
— Maggie Stiefvater
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
— Bob Hope
All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.
— Kenan Evren
Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.
— Louis Menand
Seth rubbed his nose against Dom's shoe in a silent plea. The leather was so soft. So unlike Dom's heart.
— K.A. Merikan
I rubbed my head trying to fend off the headache I was sure this conversation would bring me.
— Hilary Grossman
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
— Gautama Buddha
[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
— Rebecca West
His thumb rubbed the center of my palm. All my nerves concentrated there, alive to every movement of his skin on mine.
— E. Lockhart
Jesus." Blake rubbed his throat. "You have anger management problems. Its like a disease."
"There's a cure and it's called kicking your ass. — Jennifer L. Armentrout
"There's a cure and it's called kicking your ass. — Jennifer L. Armentrout
I rubbed the scar on my skin. It felt like the truth.
— Kami Garcia
Dad rubbed his forehead. "No Sophie, its alright. That's what I hoped you would do."
"You hoped I'd commit mirrorcide? — Rachel Hawkins
"You hoped I'd commit mirrorcide? — Rachel Hawkins
Glasses clinked and voices rubbed each other.
— Maya Angelou