Crash Quotes - Page 14

• Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

  Chris Cleave

  Doctors, Giving, Pickles

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Stars, Lying, Fire

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.185, Vintage

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• This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eye, Glasses, Bending

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.130, Penguin

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• Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Fashion, Teacher, Hate

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• When did they start coming after you?” “Was it—was it after the oil- slick Hummer crash?” the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash? Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. “Or maybe it was more---after the bomb,” the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. “I think it was the bomb,” Iggy agreed. “That definitely seemed to tick them off.” “Bomb?” I asked incredulously.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

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• Deep, bone-melting pleasure surged through Kira’s subconscious as he thrust forward again, almost causing her to shout at the crash of rapture filling her. “That is what I feel when I’m inside you.” His voice was low, eyes lit up with blinding green. “And you will feel every measure of the same, I promise.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Voice, Promise

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• I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Car, Feelings, Hitting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.499, Scholastic Inc.

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• Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Knowing, Important

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ice, Hot, Rage

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• It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Reality, Rocks, Support

  Chuck Klosterman (2007). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

  Nikki Sixx

  Fun, Race, People

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• If a double-decker bus
  Crashes into us
  To die by your side...
  The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

  Steven Morrissey

  Your Side, Sides, Pleasure

  "Song: 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out'". 1986.

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• She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Thinking, Men

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.27, Villard

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• Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Years, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

  Derek Landy

  War, Chaos, Resources

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.115, HarperCollins UK

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• I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all.

  e. e. cummings

  Tired, Unique, Moon

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

  Stephen King

  Bash, Gardener, Nicholson

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• Raoden turned to regard the large Dula. "What does it matter? It's not like we have anything pressing to do. It's actually quite pleasant up here—you should just sit back and enjoy it." An ominous crash came from the clouds above them, and Raoden felt a wet drop splat against his head. "Fantastic," Galladon grumbled. "I'm enjoying myself already.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clouds, Doe, Matter

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.84, Macmillan

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• I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Crazy, Cancer

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

  Patrick Ness

  Sound, Impossible, Loud

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• In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Hurt, Taken, Heart

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• Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

  Neal Stephenson

  Differences, Snow, Waiting

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.200, Spectra

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• They’d played “Sweet Home, Alabama” so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sweet, Party, Home

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• You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

  Mitch Albom

  Fall, Airplane, Thinking

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