Littles Quotes - Page 10

• We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

  Clive Barker

  Despair, Way, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 13, 2014

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• It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.

  Lauren Oliver

  Night, Circles, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.33, HarperCollins

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• Besides, do you think you would have come if I’d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, ‘Hello, I’m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?

  Richard Kadrey

  Tattoo, War, Thinking

  Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

  Danielle Steel

  Life Is, Moments, Schizophrenic

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• What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.

  Marie Lu

  Girl, Criminals, Republic

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.181, Penguin

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• Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Men, Said

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

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• He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Building Up, House

  Charles Dickens (2017). “CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…”, p.25, e-artnow

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• What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Heart, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Running, Hate, Tolerance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Complete Science Fiction Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, The Gods of Mars, Beyond Thirty, The Warlord of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, Pirates of Venus, The Monster Men and many more”, p.620, e-artnow

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• Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Men, Break

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• It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Enemy, Matter, Beats

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.

  Bisco Hatori

  Hurt, Distance, Keys

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• Kill me, little sister. Kill me and you kill Jace, too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Little Sister, Jace, Kill Me

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• Paul?” I said. My voice shook a little. “It’s Jo.” Silence. I couldn’t tell what was happening on the other end. Then, very quietly, “Jesus.” “No, just Joanne, although I can see how you might make the mistake, coming back from the dead and all.

  Rachel Caine

  Jesus, Mistake, Voice

  Rachel Caine (2004). “Heat Stroke: Book Two of the Weather Warden”, p.236, Penguin

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• Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.

  Anne Carson

  Dark, Light, Mind

  "Nox by Anne Carson" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

  Jean Rhys

  Matter, Ridiculous, Bits

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• I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

  E. M. Forster

  Love Is, Soul, Wish

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me — and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sweet, Lying, Thinking

  "Being and Nothingness".

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• Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Voice, Courses

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.545, Hachette UK

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• Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened. "Zip it up?" Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, i will track Scott down, and when i find him, it won't be pretty.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Hard Times

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• The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.

  Stephen King

  Crazy, Winning, People

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• How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Mother, Two

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• Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

  Larissa Ione

  Men, Twenties, Doe

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Girl, Philosophical, Fighting

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

  Jim Butcher

  Writing, Monsters, Becoming

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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