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Quotes About Crack

you've never seen any evidence of drugs—any packets of drugs? Crack? Speed? Ecstasy? Anything? Anything at all?" Had she? "No," she said. Almost truthfully. "You've never smelt anything suspicious?" "I wouldn't know what they smell like, drugs
~ Colin Dexter
Rays of sunlight strike the snow, melting an ice layer that freezes and re-forms every day. As I take a step, I feel the sheet break, a craquelure spreading from my feet.
~ Holly Black
I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Another crack, and this time the bullet went deep somewhere inside, seeking out the centre of his life. He thought: it won't find it there. Hester's my centre.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyndie was still something of a mystery to him. Hard to know, with an exterior that would be difficult to crack, but he wouldn't stop trying until she let him in. Something told him she would be worth the extra effort--did she see that about herself? Would she ever?
~ Unknown
Inside, a piece of him cracked; it was as though an emotion that had calcified into bone got tapped with a tiny hammer and splintered straight through.
~ Unknown
Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.
~ Brian Reitzell
He pops a bat twice more on home plate, then tosses a ball in the air and swings. The crack of the bat sounds like a paper bag exploding, yet the sound is cold and lonely, too, like a hunter firing on an endless tundra.
~ Unknown
Yielding flesh in his hands, hot with fear, sticky with sweat and blood and already smelling of heaven. Helpless bones his to crack, helpless skin his to rip open, sweet red river his to drink from. He had to do it. He had to know. With his eyes and his hands, with all his body, he had to see.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
If he had any kind of a clue, he wouldn't be caught dead with that stuff. See what I did there? Caught dead? I crack myself up." Eve sipped more coffee she probably, at this point, didn't need.
~ Rachel Caine
There was a damp crack as the flesh and bones of the dead finally failed, and the gate slammed shut.
~ Rachel Caine
The door was now ajar, the light of an unknown future shining through its crack. But it would take more strength than I had alone to push it open. I watched the rise and fall of his breath, and the play of light and shadow on the strong, clean lines of his face, and knew that nothing truly mattered between us but the fact that we both still lived.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
~ Daniel Hannan
Wanting to steer toward great outcomes is noble. But trying to control the world is disastrous. In time, controllers crack under the reality that none of us are in control.
~ Louie Giglio
There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
~ Louise Penny
It was a hairline crack, one might never have noticed, except for the fact it grew wider and wider, until there was a canyon between them. A child's job, ostensibly, was to grow up. So why, when it happened, did a parent feel so disappointed?
~ Jodi Picoult
His trust was like a mirror, I could have fixed it when it shattered, but I would still see that crack, And it would still look tattered.
~ Unknown
Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.
~ George Saunders
If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?
~ Van Morrison
Is there a moment that a heart cracks?
~ Madeline Miller
You can't keep hiding behind your masks of glass. Because eventually, you're just going to either shatter or completely crack.
~ Unknown
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
~ E. B. White
Um . . . guys? If I, say, noticed a crack in a wall in a tunnel and a cold, creepy draft came out of it and it smelled like three-day-old lasagna, would you, um, want to know about that?" Murdock and I exchanged glances. "You invited him," I said. "Show us the crack, Joe," Murdock said. Joe turned around and lowered his loincloth.
~ Unknown
No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency
~ Mark Frost