Bottom Quotes - Page 20

• This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Our World, Land, People

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.12, Anchor

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• To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Should Have, Done, Caught

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• No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom." He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer and steeper than the rail at home. The hall rose to meet me, and Char was there. He caught me and spun me around.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Dream, Home, Years

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• But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.

  Andrea Gibson

  Hitting, Hitting Back

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• I had been so mad at him when I left, I'd given them back. All except for the one that stuck to the bottom of the jar. He smiled. "They're at home, waiting." "For what?" His eyes glittered. "That, I cannot say.

  Kiera Cass

  Home, Eye, Mad

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• Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Childhood, Toys

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Selfish, Lines, Way

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• The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Feel Better, Doe

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.

  K.J. Parker

  Girl, Pain, Children

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• Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

  Marisha Pessl

  Thinking, Rocks, Realizing

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• I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Joy, Piercings

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• Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

  Megan Hart

  Flower, Smell, Water

  Megan Hart (2013). “Tear You Apart”, p.57, Harlequin

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• I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.

  Richard Siken

  Beautiful, Summer, Suicide

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• Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Frustrated, Hey, Steps

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.113, St. Martin's Griffin

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• She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

  Marisha Pessl

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

  Rick Riordan

  Ideas, Hull, Giants

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• Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

  Stephen King

  Running, Dog, Paws

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

  Rick Riordan

  Smart, Black, Delight

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.76, Penguin UK

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• Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

  Dave Eggers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ladders

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.18, Vintage

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• I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Drinking, Glasses, Psychics

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• Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Running, Jumping, Stopping

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.264, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Men, Religion

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

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• Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, History, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.3, CUP Archive

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• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  Carlos Slim

  Running, Eye, Responsibility

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• All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Educational, School

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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