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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
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
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
— Robert Breault
The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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 ideanever 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
Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more — J. Aleksandr Wootton
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
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
— John Calvin
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
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
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
The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.
— Jasper Fforde
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
