Bigs Quotes - Page 21

• Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Echoes, Storm

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• You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead. What sort of dead do you usually date?

  Christine Warren

  Vampire, News, World

  Christine Warren (2010). “One Bite With A Stranger”, p.277, Macmillan

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• It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

  Anne Rice

  Roots, Secret, Ends

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.919, Ballantine Books

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• I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .

  Jeff Lindsay

  Nice, Believe, Men

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.32, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

  Rick Riordan

  Reminders, Big Heads, Better Than You

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• I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?' 'He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear. 'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Hagrid bit his lip. 'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.' Harry suddenly turned to Ron. 'Charlie,' he said. 'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Dragons, Giving

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• So, let's make a deal: If you do not voice all the withering comments about the weight or uselessness of this jacket that are no doubt swirling in that big brain of yours, then I will not mention the super-laser episode again. Agreed?" This jacket is really cutting into my shoulders, thought Artemis. And it's so heavy that I could not outrun a slug. But he said, "Agreed.

  Eoin Colfer

  Cutting, Voice, Brain

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• Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.

  Joan Bauer

  Home, Changed, Feels

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• He nodded nervously. ‘He looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.’ I stared at him. ‘You’re scared of bunnies?’ ‘Blah-hah-hah! They’re big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Bully, Rabbits

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• I have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard them your entire life. Here are some of the main keys to being more successful: Take personal responsibility. Things change, so be flexible. Work smart and work hard. Serve others well. Be nice to others. Be optimistic. Have goals; want something big for yourself. Stay focused. Keep learning. Become excellent at what you do. Trust your gut. When in doubt, take action. Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. Enjoy all you've got. Above all keep it simple.

  Larry Winget

  Nice, Smart, Hard Work

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.19, Penguin

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• Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Animal, Thinking, Problem

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. I’m thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon. I wonder how many of them haven’t got any eyebrows?

  Louise Rennison

  Thinking, Moon, Eyebrows

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Book, English History

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.9, Xist Publishing

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• And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Space, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

  Robert Walser

  Tired, Clouds, Light

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• How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

  Abbi Glines

  Fit, Enough, Holes

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

  Kami Garcia

  Dark, Sitting, World

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• Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me … with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.

  Lucy Christopher

  Stars, Mean, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• Disney World?” Ari felt like his head was about to explode. “Disney World?” His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. “They’re not on vacation! They’re on the run! They’re running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they’re on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?

  James Patterson

  Running, Vacation, Voice

  James Patterson (2006). “School's Out--Forever: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• According to the three missed calls from her mother—who thought Madison had been kidnapped in the big, bad city and was now being held for an ungodly sum of money—the four text messages from her brother wondering if she knew how to navigate the beltway—because apparently little sisters couldn’t drive—and the voice mail from her father warning there was a problem with the reservations, she was late for brunch.

  J. Lynn

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle’s shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn’t exactly reassuring. “Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?” asked Kyle. Or else Ben’s breath was really bad.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Thinking, Effort

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• We use such big words to move nowhere.

  Charles Bukowski

  Moving, Use

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• It’s okay. I’m used to people not wanting me at their parties.” I pushed to my feet. The stars seemed to twirl a bit with the movement. “No big deal.

  J. Lynn

  Stars, Party, Feet

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