Car Quotes - Page 23

• And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

  Richelle Mead

  Giving Up, Four, Hours

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• I gave him a smile that I hoped was as dazzling as one of his. "I realized I'm in love." Marcus, startled, looked around as though he expected to see my object d'amour in the car with us. "And you just realized this? Did you just have some sort of vision?" "Didn't need to," I said, thinking of Wolfe's ill-fated trip to the Orkneys. "It's always been right in front of me.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Vision, Needs

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• Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

  Jim Butcher

  Thieves, Sweetheart, Stealing

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin Group

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• Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, War, Play

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.56, Penguin

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• It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

  Dan Wells

  Running, Use, Ruins

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• The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kitchen, Sitting, Snapshots

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• You replaced me with a shaved poodle?” “He’s got mad skills.” Derek’s eyebrows crept up. “He can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesn’t make fun of my car.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fun, Eyebrows, Skills

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• There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Names, Sound

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• Care to see your room?” -Bones Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there." -Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Rooms, Bones

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• Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

  Joe Hill

  Black, Sooner Or Later

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• When was the last time you lost an argument?" He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.

  Nalini Singh

  Thinking, Ears, Lasts

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.198, Penguin

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• Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hunting, Majestic, Trophies

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• This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Mother, Running, Children

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• My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Country, Sadness, Stolen

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Roarke had to force himself not to snatch her up as she swept through the hallowed Senate halls. Members of the media were already leaping toward her, but she cut through them as if they weren’t there. “I like your style, Lieutenant Dallas,” he said when they’d fought their way to the car. “I like it a lot. And by the way, I don’t think I’m in love with you anymore. I know I am.

  Nora Roberts

  Love You, Cutting, Thinking

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.199, Penguin

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• The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude?

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Yoga

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• When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs me by the collar and hurls me up against the squad car, so I can remember, at least for a moment, what it's like to be touched.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Squad, Long, Insult

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• This car was a very pretty lie.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lying

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.256, Scholastic UK

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• hey Lynch I didn't leave that car for it to sit while you just blow III

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blow, Hey

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• Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!

  Richelle Mead

  Smell, Silence, Mind

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• I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

  Gayle Forman

  Stuck In Traffic, Adrenaline, Inertia

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.228, Penguin

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• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Selfish, Silly, Fall

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• There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sexy, Night, Light

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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• Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Fire, Climbing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.190, Scholastic Inc.

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