Buried Quotes - Page 8

• No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.

  Rachel Caine

  Another Day, Yeah, Reborn

  Rachel Caine (2009). “The Dead Girls' Dance”, p.38, Allison & Busby

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• Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

  Mordecai Richler

  Monday, Two, Age

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• I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.

  Pittacus Lore

  Promise, Lasts, Faces

  Pittacus Lore (2010). “I Am Number Four: (Lorien Legacies Book 1)”, p.257, Penguin UK

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• ...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.

  Josh Lanyon

  Jake, Looks, Cop

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

  Douglas Adams

  Grandmother, Order, Three

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Generations, Fleeting, Duration

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• The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck. The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Daughter, Memories, Mind

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• Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

  Joanna Russ

  Beautiful, Fun, Tombstone

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• Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

  James Joyce

  Friday, True Life, Looks

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.97, GENERAL PRESS

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• The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.

  Sara Zarr

  Loyalty, Together, Done

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• Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Letters

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• I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

  William Gibson

  Punk, Projectile, Decades

  William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.22, Penguin

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• If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

  Lynne Truss

  Writing, Lightning, Good Food

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• I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

  Isaac Marion

  Clouds, Starting Over, Mud

  Isaac Marion (2011). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

  Kristin Hannah

  Passion, Careers, Self

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.657, Ballantine Books

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• Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

  Anne Frank

  Self, Long, Comfort

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.184, Bantam

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• I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Past, Men

  "Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy".

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• I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

  Stephen Fry

  Views, Obvious, Ill

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.282, Soho Press

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• I am sorry," was all Drizzt could quietly mouth. Vierna shook her head, refusing any apology. To Drizzt, it seemed as if that buried part of her that was Zaknafein Do'Urden's daughter approved of this ending.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Daughter, Sorry, Apology

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Legacy: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.287, Wizards of the Coast

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• Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

  Christopher Paolini

  Lying, Men, Purpose

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition with Video (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, p.194, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

  Sylvia Plath

  Night, Darkness, Looks

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.61, Hamilton Books

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• I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Hair, Jasmine

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• I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

  Lauren Oliver

  Layers, Impossible

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.707, Hachette UK

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• It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Layers, Dirt

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• On a Tuesday night they were wed, And by Friday they were dead. And they buried them in the churchyard side by side, Oh my love, And they buried them in the churchyard side by side." Breaking away from Gideon with some reluctance, Sophie rose to her feet and dusted off her dress. "Please forgive me, my dear Mr. Lightwood- I mean Gideon- but I must go and murder the cook. I shall be directly back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Friday, Mean, Night

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