Adam Quotes - Page 17

• Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fall, Cutting, People

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.35, Scholastic Inc.

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• Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too simple. The fourth, fear, we have tried and found useless. The fifth, nothing happened, is dull. The choice is between: he jumped or was pushed. And the difference between these is only an issue of whether the demons work from the inside out or from the outside in: the one theological question.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Simple, Two, Differences

  Robert Bringhurst (2010). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Random House

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• The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Temptation, Mind

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• When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Powerful, Giving, Made

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• [Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from "Please no" (Maggie), to "Jesus Christ" (Wallace), to "Stop it or die" (I'm assuming it's obvious).

  Sarah Dessen

  Jesus, Hands, Utterance

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.121, Penguin

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• Blue." It was Ronan's voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their head towards him. His head was cocked in a way that Gansey recognized as dangerous. Something in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue. He asked, "Do you know Gansey?" ... Blue looked defensive under their stares. She said reluctantly. "Only his name." With his fingers loosely together, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Adam to be closer to Blue. He could be unbelievably threatening. "And how is it," he asked," you came to know Gansey's name?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Blue, Names

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• She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lovely, Saws, Shoulders

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do." "What's that?" asked Calvin. "You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me. "The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers.

  Patricia Briggs

  Writing, Eye, People

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.104, Penguin

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• I mock everything. Don't take it so personally." Adam Black

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black, Mock

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• Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love.

  Malorie Blackman

  Daughter, Special, Shame

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• Blue stretched her hand out. Adam took it without hesitation, like he'd been waiting for her to offer it. He said in a low voice, just for her, "My heart is beating like crazy right now." Strangely enough, it was not his fingers twined in hers that affected Blue the strongest, it was where his warm wrist pressed against hers above their hands.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Crazy, Heart, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• As she lifted the glittering strand of diamonds from the box, a small slip of paper fell out. She caught it as it wafted toward the floor. Four words in ancient script, an arrogantly slanted scrawl. Accept these, accept me. Well, she thought, blinking, that was certainly direct and to the point. -Adam's note to Gabrielle

  Karen Marie Moning

  Paper, Four, Scripts

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1423, Dell

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• Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

  Gayle Forman

  Escaping, Hands, Feelings

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.33, Penguin

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• You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fall, Highlander, Immortal Highlander

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• Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mercy, Revelations, Middle

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.162, Penguin

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• The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?

  Charlaine Harris

  Baptists, Fluffy, Worried

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.49, Penguin

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• I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

  Sarah Dessen

  Differences, Bigs, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.117, Penguin

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• I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Creating, People, Upset

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• Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Land, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Things In Life, Knowing, Excess

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• It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn’t love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn’t want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn’t be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Eye, Coyotes

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Iron Kissed: Mercy Thompson”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!" ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Black, Wish

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• Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Perfection, Elbows, Hours

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• He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. "You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Father, Lying

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!

  Meg Cabot

  Enemy, Looks, Wenches

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Grave Doubts”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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