May Quotes - Page 14

• You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, Clouds

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• Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.

  Paullina Simons

  Wrath, Wish, Different

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• Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Giving, Want, Drs

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.162, A&C Black

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• I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Humility, Pride, People

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• A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

  Judy Blume

  Curiosity, Wells, Persons

  Judy Blume (2009). “Summer Sisters: A Novel”, p.30, Delta

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• Live your life; whatever that life may be.

  Corey Taylor

  Live Your Life

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• Just head over to the risers, Lady America," she said. "You may sit anywhere you like. So you know, most of the girls have already claimed the front row." She looked sorry for me, as if she were delivering bad news. "Oh, thank you," I said, and went happily to take a seat in the back.

  Kiera Cass

  Girl, Sorry, America

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• For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?

  Jessica Sorensen

  Voice, Forever, Want

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• You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

  Lauren Graham

  Soldier, Sensitive

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• may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back

  Lucille Clifton

  Kissing, Wind, Certain

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Book, Finding Yourself

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• People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, People

  Peter Singer (2015). “Animal Liberation”, p.146, Random House

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• I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Believe

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• I love you, Ella May," I whisper, kissing her cheek. "And one day I want to be doing this exact same thing at our wedding.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Love You, Kissing, One Day

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• Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air. You own my soul, Ella May. Micha

  Jessica Sorensen

  Love You, Air, Soul

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• ...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Appreciation, Avid, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

  Ellen Raskin

  Turtles, Gold, Remember

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• A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

  E. Lockhart

  Ambition, Tomatoes, Fruit

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books

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• No fewer than four of my esteemed elders told me I was on no account to ever converse with you, so I vowed that I would know you. My name is Edmund Herondale. May I ask your name? They reffered to you only as 'that disgraceful one-warlock show.

  Cassandra Clare

  Names, Four, Warlocks

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when he said, "You know, I've always wanted to be a bath attendant. You should take me instead. I'm nicer than my sister." Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better." "I'm afraid I must deny her the pleasure. I've been kissed by swords before, you see." "I may have noticed.

  Laini Taylor

  Rose, Effort, Waiting

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• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Confused, Innovation, Too Late

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• Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jobs, Stupid, Extraordinary Beauty

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• We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

  Morris Gleitzman

  United, Manchester

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• There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

  Amish Tripathi

  Reality, Opposites, Perception

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• It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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