Broke Quotes - Page 19

• Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

  David Ebershoff

  Grandma, Years, Grandpa

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• Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Past, Keys, Break Through

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction”, p.540, H. P. Lovecraft

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• There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Glasses, Light

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• Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.171, Penguin

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• Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

  Gregory Galloway

  Winter, Long, Crumbling

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.202, Penguin

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• So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below,— A universe of sky and snow!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Wall, Night

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.87, tredition

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• Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.

  Markus Zusak

  Blood, Pieces, Liesel

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.133, RH Childrens Books

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• She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Pain, Cancer, Farewell

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• I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles

  James A. Owen

  Thinking, Toes, Shut Up

  James A. Owen (2015). “Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Sticks, Hallmark

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.143, Penguin

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• You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window." "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it." "Twice." "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Needs, Potatoes

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.97, Penguin

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• End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back, I stepped on it. Penélope [Cruz] and Javier [Bardem] anxious to work with me again. Said if I ever come up with another screenplay to try and find them. Goodbye drink with Rebecca [Hall]. Sentimental moment. Everyone in cast and crew chipped in and bought me a ballpoint pen.

  Woody Allen

  Goodbye, Party, Trying

  "Scarlett: 'What's my motivation here?' Woody: 'Your salary'" by Woody Allen, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2009.

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• The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

  John Grisham

  Way, Lawyer, Blame

  John Grisham (1996). “The Rainmaker”, Dell

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• In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Mom, Couple, Military

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• Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

  Lois Lowry

  Elephants, Tree, Body

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, Laurel Leaf

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• Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.

  Brian Jacques

  White, Sea, Cream

  Brian Jacques (2004). “The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall”, p.73, Penguin

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• My brother broke into a toothy grin. "Yay! Your brain works!

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Brain, Yay

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• The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges. "What are you doing?" Ghastek asked. "My hole puncher broke." "You have no respect for the undead.

  Ilona Andrews

  Couple, Vampire, Mouths

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.119, Penguin

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• Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Knives, Ivy

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• Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Stronger, Pieces, Emeralds

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Body, Grows

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Past, Men

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• The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Heart, Sleep

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• They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

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• We broke the world to make it whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  World, Whole

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Other Wind”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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