Bad Things Quotes - Page 7

• You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

  Paula Fox

  Stills, Happenings, Ifs

  Paula Fox (2016). “The Slave Dancer”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, Self, Order

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.

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• You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

  Sarah Dunn

  People, Doe, Cooperation

  Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Sometimes, Reason

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• There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

  Kris Carr

  Change, Life Lesson, Bullshit

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• Maybe it’s the other way around,” Jason suggested. “Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when they’re needed most.

  Rick Riordan

  People, Special, Jason

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• Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Lying, Light, Two

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.204, St. Martin's Press

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• Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?" Jace heard the acid in his own tone, saw Alec flinch, and was meanly, momentarily, glad. "She didn't call you a criminal, exactly..." "No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nun

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Naughty, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

  Patricia Briggs

  Life, Knowing, Challenges

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• What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Lasts, Scones

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.257, Penguin

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• Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

  Richelle Mead

  Evil, Good Things, When Bad Things Happen

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• They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

  Tom Waits

  Difficult

  "Watch Tom Waits' Speech and Performance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2011.

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• "I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Trying, Panic Attacks

  "Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver". Book by E. Lockhart, 2010.

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• of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hurt, Fall, Mirrors

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• Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Asking Why, People, Perfect

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• He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Monsters

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• Just Because something ends dosent mean that it's a bad thing or that someones bound to get hurt,ot that it never shold have happend in the first place or whatever. But If each step brings us to the next how can we grow if we avoid everything that can hurt us?? We pretty much have no choice but to get out there and hope for the best and who knows we may even learn a thing or two on the way

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Mean, Two

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• Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mean, Way, Knows

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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• Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

  Danielle Steel

  Needs, Care, Good Things

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• It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Simple, Simple Life, Celebrate

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• Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Marijuana, Sometimes, Good Things

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.144, Algonquin Books

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• Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

  Cornelia Funke

  Lonely, Block, Friendly

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• If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Way, Century, Ingenuity

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• Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  People, Good People, Capable

  Elizabeth Chandler (2013). “Everafter: A Kissed by an Angel Novel”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Dressing Up, Clothes

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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