Mets Quotes - Page 16

• I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning

  Art, Crazy, Book

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• Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Art, Home, Bed

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.

  Simone Elkeles

  Girl, Dream, Kissing

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")

  Cornell Woolrich

  Beautiful, Life Changing, Simple

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• It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Differences, Different, Influence

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.

  Jim Butcher

  Guy, Want, Bigs

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.338, Penguin

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• I am so glad we met at an undisclosed location over the summer.

  Gena Showalter

  Summer, Location, Glad

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.84, Harlequin

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• My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10]

  Francis Chan

  Creating, Ephesians, Existence

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• A relieved grin filled up Thorne’s face. “We’re having another moment, aren’t we?” “If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.

  Marissa Meyer

  Mean, Filled Up, Faces

  Marissa Meyer (2013). “Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

  Ally Carter

  Dad, Hot, Credit

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• Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?" "Will you remember me?" His heart broke into a thousand pieces. "Always.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Eerie

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Bonds of Justice”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• Avery, I haven’t messed around with Steph since I met you. I have messed around with anyone since I met you.

  J. Lynn

  Havens

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• It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

  David Levithan

  Doe, Way, Like You

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.155, Macmillan

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• And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Eye, Keys, Locks

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wall, Real, Book

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Soul, Lightning

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• There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

  Maureen Johnson

  People, Way, Normal

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• If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?

  Lady Gregory

  Pain, Past, Years

  Lady Gregory, Lucy McDiarmid, Maureen Waters (1995). “Selected writings”, Penguin USA

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• why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

  Gaston Leroux

  Men, Knows

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• Blay didn’t shake the hand that was offered. He reached over, took a hold of the fighter’s face, and drew Qhuinn in for a kiss. It was supposed to be only a split-seconder— like their lips were the ones doing the handshake thing. When he went to pull back, though, Qhuinn captured him, and held him in place. Their mouths met again… and again… and once more, their heads tilting to the sides, the contact lingering. “You’re welcome,” Blay said roughly. Then he smiled a little. “Can’t say it was all a pleasure, though.

  J.R. Ward

  Kissing, Hands, Mouths

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• I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, I Like You, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.101, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

  Neil Cross

  Wind, Important, Tears

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• In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

  Neil Strauss

  Girlfriend, Facts, Paradox

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.154, Canongate Books

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• God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word.

  Maya Banks

  Beautiful, Jesus, Believe

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• If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Long, Good Things, Ifs

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