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The earth yawned and stretched toward the sky, rather than assaulting it. The peaks were mighty, but gentle. "Friendly, — Suanne Laqueur

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape. — Travis Luedke

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected. — Al Gore

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha. — Dolly Parton

His happiness stretched out its wings and gave a few flaps. He — Lauren Groff

If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed. — Elizabeth Berg

Written words, he told me, were forever. Stories stretched beyond death, like time itself, ever changing us, but themselves, unchanged. — Elise Forier Edie

I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched. — Drake

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. — Robert Breault

The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably. — Jojo Moyes

The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak. — Laurie Halse Anderson

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. — Rumi

Julie stretched her neck and arched her back to get the kinks out. — Kelsey MacBride

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy. — Terence Stamp

Our shadows stretched before us across the surface of the world. — Rachel Hartman

Something was stretched to the point of irreparable damage, and I wanted to bounce on it until it broke. — Scot Gardner

Funny, isn't it? I've known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister. — Josephine Angelini

Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before. — Erika Johansen

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh. — Joanne Froggatt

What makes you Vivian.' I liked the way he said my name, all throaty on the V's, all stretched to its rightful three syllables. — Beatriz Williams

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation. — Frederick Franck

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves. — Lemony Snicket

A mind stretched by a new idea
never shrinks back to its original proportions.
~ — Oliver Wendell Holmes

And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs. — C.N. Faust

The expanse of space stretched out before them, causing Andi's eyelids to droop against her will. Before she knew it, darkness had claimed her. — Sasha Alsberg

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde

It stretched forever until it met a gray-blue sky lined with pale cerise, a sky perpetually caught in the moments before sunrise. — Charlie N. Holmberg

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. — George Eliot

Kimmeridge (n.): The light breeze which blows through your armpit hair when you are stretched out sunbathing'; — Robert Macfarlane

Hall nestled, stretched out like a sleeping beast. — Sophie Jordan

A mind stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Progressive Physician, Author — Cary Ellis

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more — J. Aleksandr Wootton

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly. — J. Lynn

How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this much to me." — Rick Warren

Yellow police tape stretched across the motel room door. I stood beside it, waiting for Mr. Stick-Up-His-Butt to finish up in the office. — Kim Harrington

Things had stretched apart. There was no glue at the center anymore. Somewhere something was tottering, and when it fell, all would end. — Stephen King

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve — John Calvin

Safe word?" "Tangerine and fuck you." "Breathe, brat," he said, jamming it in. He pulled it out so the widest part stretched me. — C.D. Reiss

She ran her hand over his cock and said, "This is the only thing I ever want to come between us."
His grin couldn't have stretched any further. — Terry Spear

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief. — James Weldon Johnson

Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling. — Michelle Hodkin

Stretched our legs, shook ourselves awake. The night — Gillian Flynn

The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin. — Jodi Picoult

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young. — Antony Jay

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make. — Adam S. McHugh

Destiny has many faces. Mine is beautiful on the outside and hideous on the inside. She has stretched her bloody talons toward me - — Andrzej Sapkowski

The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole ... — Markus Zusak

He had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him. — China Mieville

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. — K.P. Yohannan

The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point. — Jasper Fforde

Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations. — Jojo Moyes

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well. — Sarah Dessen

Sometimes due to God's mercy, the time in God's plan can be stretched or extended — Sunday Adelaja

Even after you're dead it hurts just as bad when your heart swells up, stretched bigger and bigger like an aneurysm of tears getting ready to boom. — Chuck Palahniuk

When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full. — Rumer Godden

My girlfriend still doesn't know why her sweaters are always stretched out. — Ed Wood

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. — Peter Carey

Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft. — Charlotte Bronte

... the miracle about steel is that you can hammer it so thin it's stretched to its limit, but that doesn't mean it will break. — Jodi Picoult

She stretched, pulling out her earbuds, which apparently in Lykae was code for 'Interogate me,' because the questions, they came a-calling. — Kresley Cole

Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her. Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man. — J.M. Barrie

Iron bridges hum and lofty buildings of steel and glass glint in the sun's rays and lean over everything with stretched shadows. — Logan Ryan Smith

The human brain can only be stretched so far before it breaks. — Erin Bowman

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition. — Charlotte Bronte

The sun was coming up: The pure, colorless vastness of the sky stretched over him, indifferent to him and his suffering. — J.K. Rowling

Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love. — Kid Rock

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. — Ray Bradbury

tee that stretched taut against his powerful — Kate Meader

But the truth stretched out in front of him; loving her hadn't been enough. Not enough for her. — Sherry Shahan

Our money was stretched as tight as a high wire, — Kiera Cass

He stretched, ate his last bite of fungal curds, drank the dregs of something not entirely unlike coffee, and headed out to keep peace in wartime. — James S.A. Corey

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. — Francis Bacon

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well. — Matt Bomer

He was stretched out like he was her own personal playground and she wanted to ride on his equipment for a bit longer. — Amy Andrews

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein

History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. — Marthe Bibesco

And the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds. — Stephenie Meyer

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I groaned, feeling stretched and possessed, as though every part of me was under his control and protection. — C.D. Reiss

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym

Two long lines of Shifters stretched over the field, standing unmoved. They expertly held composite bows at ready, various in origin and style. — A.O. Peart

There was too much to feel strongly about, she was stretched too thin, so she could not quite feel anything about anything. — Frances Hardinge

The nation provided a human with the things that are most human - language and a past that stretched back before his birth. — George Friedman

He stretched out beside her, uncomfortably close, as if they were lovers. Real lovers and not the most mismatched pair of fuck buddies ever. — Larissa Ione

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. — Charles R. Swindoll

Silence stretched out between them, too loud after their arguing. — Veronica Rossi

Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows. — Lauren Kate

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin. — Avril Lavigne

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke

We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother's funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn't work. — Donna Tartt

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress. — Tehyi Hsieh

My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys. — Natalie Dormer

That first inch was the hardest. The longest inch in the universe. The inch that stretched a thousand miles. — Rick Yancey

At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know ... wall. — D.J. MacHale

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock. — Herman Melville

I pictured Phillip in the tree. How his arm stayed stretched out, his hand empty, long after my dad pulled me away. — Jillian Dodd

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. — Mark Twain

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. — Anais Nin

Hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos. — Robin Wasserman