Party Quotes - Page 9

• A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.

  Anita Shreve

  Falling In Love, Son, Thinking

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• A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Atrocities, Hammers, Moments

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.370, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that." "You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all." "But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

  Michael Cunningham

  Sick, Faces, Hours

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• When the clock Tick Tocks the party never stops!

  Kesha

  Tick, Clock, Tock

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• That might work," I said. "I'm good at faking it." This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of us. "You didn't mean... ?" Morelli asked. "No. Of course not." "Never?" "Maybe once." His eyes narrowed. "Once?" "It's all that comes to mind. It was the time we were late for your Uncle Spud's birthday party." "I remember that. That was great. You're telling me you faked it?" "We were late! I couldn't concentrate. It seemed like the best way to go.

  Janet Evanovich

  Uncles, Couple, Mean

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• He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last... and the last are first.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Believe, Struggle, Angel

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• I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Morning, Math

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Slow down. The party won't start until I get there - Jo, Remember me. Page 43.

  Christopher Pike

  Pages, Remember, Slow Down

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• That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Years, Two

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

  Henry Rollins

  Lonely, Hurt, Usual

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.33, Villard

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• Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?” I grew claws and bayed at the moon. I confessed that I eat the hearts of small children. I told them I like the French.

  Libba Bray

  Children, Heart, Moon

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

  Holly Black

  Tea, Dolls, Propriety

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• (He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Letting Go, Pain, War

  Amitav Ghosh (2014). “The Hungry Tide: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

  Ken Kesey

  Couple, Rip, Sight

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes

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• Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

  Georgette Heyer

  Horse, Eye, Hands

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• Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Why Not, Slumber, All Things

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• I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Wish, Hats

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• I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Mean, Talking, People

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• There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

  Cyril Connolly

  Book, Writing, Three

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• I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

  Margaret Haddix

  Hats, Celebrate, Knows

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011). “The 39 Clues #10: Into the Gauntlet”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Leaving, Watches

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.410, Pan Macmillan

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• Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

  Veronica Roth

  Breathing, Cake, Peter

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• You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

  Ilona Andrews

  People, Guilt, Going Away

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Cutting, Reality

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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