Should Quotes - Page 4

• When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

  Nora Roberts

  Stars, Blood, Tears

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.45, Bantam

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• Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

  Sandra Brown

  Gone, Next, Moments

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

  Iain Pears

  Contentment, Want, Firsts

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.147, Penguin

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• It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Sight, Important

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.189, e-artnow

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• You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Powerful, Lucky, Chance

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• There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name.

  Diane Setterfield

  Names, Culture, Mystical

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.

  George MacDonald

  Girl, Princess, Sleep

  George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.649, e-artnow

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• I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

  Sylvia Plath

  People, Looks, Look At Me

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Self, Differences

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• She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Crazy, Odds

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• She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.

  Sharon Shinn

  Havens

  "Mystic and Rider (The Twelve Houses, Book 1)". Book by Sharon Shinn, 2005.

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• If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Butterfly, Space, Doe

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.223, Faber & Faber

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• You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

  Gail Carriger

  Hungry, Reason, Modern

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• Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Godly, Fighting

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.115, Random House India

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• To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Interesting, Mockingbird

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

  Paula McLain

  Space, Magic, World

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.361, Ballantine Books

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• A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.

  John Donne

  Good Night, Valentine, Clothes

  John Donne (1949). “The complete poems of John Donne”

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• They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Children, Growing Up, Moving

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.235, Delacorte Press

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• Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire." "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer." "Whoa." Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sorry, Coffee, Hair

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

  Janet Evanovich

  Vampire, Trying, Necks

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.688, Bantam

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• I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strong, Sorry, Heart

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• We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Acknowledge, Religious Faith, Merciful

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Beautiful, Wise, Princess

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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