Mets Quotes - Page 13

• He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Skills, Age

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.58, Penguin

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• I existed until I met you. Now I'm alive.

  Cindy Gerard

  Alive, I'm Alive

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

  Abraham Verghese

  Father, Comfort, Ears

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• I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

  Larry McMurtry

  Soul, World, Normal

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.479, Simon and Schuster

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• Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Safe Haven, Men, Lucky

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• Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Eye, Moments, Flew

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black

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• Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble

  Alethea Kontis

  Sunshine, Hair, Names

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• How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

  Rachel Cohn

  Expectations, Connections, Anticipation

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Just because we haven’t met Mr. Right doesn’t mean we’re doing anything wrong. And by the way, you’re brilliant and awesome, too. If I were a lesbian, I’d totally settle down with you and make lots of in vitro babies.

  Julie James

  Baby, Mean, Mr Right

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.108, Penguin

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• Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Athena, Prepared

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• As he gave a sleepy, growling groan, that hand disappeared under the sheet. Arizona's lips parted, and her heartbeat tripped up. She cleared her throat. "Spencer?" Freezing, without moving any other body part, he opened his eyes and met her gaze. She frowned at him. He didn't look super-startled, and he said nothing. He just started at her. With his hand still under there. "Yeah..." Semi-satisfied with his frozen reaction, she nodded at his lap. "You weren't going for a little tug, were you? Because as your spectator, I'd just as soon not see it." -Arizona and Spencer

  Lori Foster

  Moving, Eye, Hands

  Lori Foster (2012). “A Perfect Storm”, p.11, Harlequin

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• She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away.

  J. Lynn

  Eye, Intensity, Swept Away

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• I’ve met nearly every woman in this room, and I can’t think of one who would make a better friend. I’d be glad to have you stay." My relief was inexpressible. "Do you think," Maxon asked, "That I could still call you ‘my dear’?" "Not a chance." I whispered.

  Kiera Cass

  Thinking, Relief, Rooms

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.59, HarperCollins

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• I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I’d met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn’t see me avoiding it in the grocery store.

  Kim Harrison

  Ice Cream, Blood, Eerie

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• This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Looks, Littles

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• My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

  Deborah Harkness

  Tudors, Firsts, Return

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.525, Penguin

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• Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Eye, Race, Knowing

  Julie Anne Peters (2008). “Luna”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• The door opened, and we were met by a fifty-something man with a grizzled blond beard. He was wearing Bermuda shorts and a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt. Also, he had an eye patch. "This is incredible," I heard Adrian murmur. "Beyond my wildest dreams.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Eye, Men

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Together, Because I Can, Humans

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.118, Zola Books

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• We haven’t met… I’m Kori Daniels. If you don’t get that gun out of my face, I’m gonna take it, then I’m gonna break your jaw so I can unhinge it and shove your pistol down your throat. That way the bullet goes through the long way.

  Rachel Vincent

  Gun, Long, Pistols

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• Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt.

  Caitlin Moran

  Passion, Doctors, Glasses

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• Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I’m not kidding," he says. "You should be," she says, "we’re sixteen." "What about Romeo and Juliet?" "Shallow, confused," then dead. "I love you, Park says. "Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers. "I’m not kidding," he says. "You should be.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Art, Confused, Love You

  "Eleanor & Park: Exclusive Special Edition". Book by by Rainbow Rowell, October 4, 2016.

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• I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

  Paulo Coelho

  Crazy, People, Saws

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• I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, World, Limits

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• Then the fear all humans felt when met with Death’s gaze came over his face. That’s right buddy, I’m Death, now move away from my girl.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Moving, Faces

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