Anna Quotes - Page 2

• If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

  John Green

  Mom, Guy, Secret

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.77, Penguin

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• Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Fun, Trying

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.100, Penguin

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• Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.

  Ari Graynor

  People, Goal, Green

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

  Paullina Simons

  Growing Up, Book, Favourite

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• Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Nice, Drs

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.59, Penguin

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• Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Home, Dear

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Silly, Olives, Said

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• Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Dice, Chance

  Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.173, Penguin

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• I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

  James McBride

  Color, Trying, Wish

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• "I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."

  Patricia Briggs

  Fire, Next Day, Fiction

  "Cry Wolf". Book by Patricia Briggs, July 2008.

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• You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

  Lora Leigh

  Archer, Eye, Boys

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• I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

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• You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

  Patricia Briggs

  Want, Said, Ifs

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.89, Penguin

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• The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

  William Faulkner

  Beautiful, Women, Cat

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1973

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• I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

  Alicia Vikander

  Class, Two, Feet

  "TIFF FUTURES: ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘A Royal Affair’ Star Alicia Vikander is Getting Her Fair Share of Corset Training". www.indiewire.com. September 07, 2012.

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• ...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

  Nora Roberts

  Strong Women, Needs, Arms

  "Glory In Death". Book by J. D. Robb, 1995.

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• Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Said, Glances

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Falling In Love, Love You, Home

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What’s that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.

  John Green

  Real, Ocean, Men

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• Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

  Doris Lessing

  Arrogant, Insisting

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist material. “Right,” Anna told him. “Buck up. You might even enjoy it.” “You might as well have ‘hapless victim’ tattooed across your forehead,” he muttered.

  Patricia Briggs

  Tourists, Bucks, Might

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.51, Penguin

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• I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine." - Anna to Charles

  Patricia Briggs

  Dog, Sleep, Needs

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• Are you done yet?' Issac called Charles tilted his head back and called back, 'I suppose that's why they call you the five minute wonder.' Anna could feel her eyes round and her mouth drop open 'I cant believe you just said that' She paused and reconsidered. 'I am so telling Samuel you said that.' Charles smiled. kissed her gently, and said 'Samuel won't believe you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Believe, Eye, Done

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• My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Father, Stupid

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.35, Penguin

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• I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

  James McBride

  Miracle, Mind, Proud

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