Coffee Quotes - Page 30

• It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

  Peter Cameron

  Compelling Reason, Reason, Compelling

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

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• I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

  Jay Asher

  Book, Oxen, Ink

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.91, Penguin

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• Rafe grinned. "So we are dating?" "No. You have to pass the parental exam first. It'll take you awhile to compile the data. They'd like it in triplicate." I turned to my parents. "We have Kenji. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need." Dad chocked on his coffee.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dad, Phones, Cells

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• You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.

  David Levithan

  Justin

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

  Steven Pressfield

  Morning, Writing, Today

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.112, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Circles, Enough Time, Enchantment

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• Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right.

  Walker Percy

  Home, Mean, Car

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee—and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela—Raphael’s as well. Then she put down the carafe.

  Nalini Singh

  Ideas, Waiting, Feelings

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.154, Penguin

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• He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Stupid, Wake Up, Tvs

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• Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?” “He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you’re interested

  Darynda Jones

  Uncles, Children, Doe

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.36, Macmillan

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• It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lines, Way, Mysterious

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I'll cab it home." "Naw. I'll hang until you're through. Then I'll drag you back to your apartment. Watch you throw up for an hour. Push you into bed. Before I leave I'll get the coffee machine set up. Aspirin will be right next to the sugar bowl." "I don't have a sugar bowl." "So it'll be next to the bag." Butch smiled. "You'd have made a great wife, Jose." "That's what mine tells me.

  J.R. Ward

  Home, Wife, Bed

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.169, Penguin

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• If the waitress comes, order me a coffee and something that involves bacon.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Order, Waitress, Ifs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.331, Scholastic Inc.

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• Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Children, Badass

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• It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Kids, Eye

  "Why We Broke Up". Book by Daniel Handler, December, 2011.

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• Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.

  Lauren Oliver

  Night, Chocolate, Hot

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Bags, More Money

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.48, Penguin

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• His eyes were cold and brown - like coffee stains.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Cold, Brown

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

  Iris Murdoch

  Made, Very Good

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.90, Penguin

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• How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

  Nora Roberts

  Shine On, Shining, Stuff

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• Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,” she said. “Don’t you want it?” “Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.” “Why?” Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?” “Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it,” I said. “So it’s really amazing cake,” said Meghan. “And I want you to have it.

  E. Lockhart

  Love Is, Cake, Giving

  E. Lockhart (2010). “Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver”, p.194, Delacorte Press

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• After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

  Darynda Jones

  Host, Shows, Stills

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.5, Macmillan

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• A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Land, Sandwiches, Delicacy

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Zillmann Publishing

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• I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.

  Kim Harrison

  Hunting, Guy, Tacky

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• Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. "It's three thirty in the morning." "Okay. Want coffee?

  Darynda Jones

  Morning, Three, Want

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