Blow Quotes - Page 17

• I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Running, Heart, Cutting

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Squares, Color

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Boys

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Peace, Biblical

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• He started to smile. “Are you waving the white flag?” “Not so fast. I’m saying we can take things slow. See if it blows up in our faces. I ’m not saying declare eternal love for each other while I fall back with my legs open.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fall, White, Eternal Love

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Cutting, Soul

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sometimes, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• The night is darkening round me,
  The wild winds coldly blow;
  But a tyrant spell has bound me
  And I cannot, cannot go.
  The giant trees are bending
  Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
  The storm is fast descending,
  And yet I cannot go.
  Clouds beyond clouds above me,
  Wastes beyond wastes below;
  But nothing drear can move me;
  I will not, cannot go.

  Emily Bronte

  Moving, Night, Tyrants

  "The Night is Darkening Round Me". Poem by Emily Bronte, www.poetryfoundation.org. November 1837.

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• If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Noses, World, Written

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• Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have struck on this day, has two distinct paths he might travel in his life. He might walk out into the world with a wounded heart, intent on sharing his mad hatred with every person he passes; or, he might start out anew with an empty heart, and he should take care to fill it up with only proud things from then on, so as to nourish his desolate mind-set and cultivate something positive or new.

  Patrick deWitt

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.105, Granta Books

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• Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Powerful, Men, Yelling

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• The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Guy, Taj Mahal, Pakistan

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• I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

  John Green

  Real, Faults, Casualties

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.

  Steve Kluger

  Witty, Jeans, Fart

  Steve Kluger (2009). “Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel”, p.241, Zondervan

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• What do you think love is - a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hurt, Heart, Love Is

  "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld". Book by Patricia A. McKillip, 1974.

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• Do ye dare to draw arms against the justice of God?" snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely, with a flash of steel, then thrust it point-first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow. "I draw it in defense of this women, and the truth," he said "If any here be against those two they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Justice Of God, Order, Two

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.618, Delacorte Press

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• Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Journey

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

  Holly Black

  Fun, Years, Needs

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.

  Raymond Carver

  Daughter, Morning, Nice

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.148, Vintage

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• He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

  Tamora Pierce

  Arms, Cooks, Artistry

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.706, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

  Patrick Ness

  Dad, Thoughtful, Air

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.” “Blow me.

  Nora Roberts

  Reading, Drills

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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Children, Eight, Two

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• Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

  Karen Maitland

  Rain, Wind, World

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