Blow Quotes - Page 21

• Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts

  Cecelia Ahern

  Change, Thinking, Wind

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Land, Long

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.77, Canongate Books

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• It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Night, Wind

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

  Sara Teasdale

  Lying, Flower, Gay

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

  William Golding

  Animal, Fire, Ifs

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

  Willa Cather

  Children, Hands, People

  Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

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• when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

  Dale Carnegie

  Wind, Burning, Pieces

  Dale Carnegie (2004). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

  Stephen King

  Father, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stars, Lakes, Should Have

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.166, Macmillan

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• You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

  Michael J. Fox

  Opportunity, Suffering, Left

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• You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.187, Open Road Media

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Grieving, Funeral

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• Rose took my nose, I suppose,” he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. “And it really blows.

  James Dashner

  Rose, Noses, Made

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.185, Delacorte Press

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• What are we going to blow up?" Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid... you just said my seven favorite words.

  Heather Brewer

  Kids, Favorite Words, Seven

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• I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

  Aaron Allston

  Location, Cases, Wanted

  Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1903, Del Rey

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• Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Elephants, Underwater, Next

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• It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it." "Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mcdonalds, Car, Heaven

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.120, Macmillan

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• How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Book, Mean

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 2

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• I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Running, Heart, Cutting

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Squares, Color

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Boys

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Peace, Biblical

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• He started to smile. “Are you waving the white flag?” “Not so fast. I’m saying we can take things slow. See if it blows up in our faces. I ’m not saying declare eternal love for each other while I fall back with my legs open.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fall, White, Eternal Love

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Cutting, Soul

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sometimes, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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