Cracks Quotes - Page 16

• A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he’s got a magic roll of toilet paper.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, White, Long

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.284, Penguin UK

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• I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

  Isaac Marion

  Crush, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

  Bernard Malamud

  Real, Track, Stories

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Strong

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• There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Hate, Doors

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.569, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heartbroken, Children, Order

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• She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Autumn, Winter, Wind

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• Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Life, Expectations, Pottery

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Brandon Sanderson Sampler: The Way of Kings and Mistborn”, p.48, Macmillan

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• He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

  Gena Showalter

  Wind, Funny Things, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.31, HQN Books

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Suicide, Hurt, Blood

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• What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Kids, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fall, Compassion, Rocks

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.204, Penguin

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• I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?

  R.L. LaFevers

  Uncles, Fun, Upset

  R. L. LaFevers (2008). “Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

  Tupac Shakur

  Law, Feet, Rose

  Song: (Poetry) The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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• When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, People, Argument

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.169, Random House

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• Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

  John Green

  Talking, Secret, Lines

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.225, Penguin

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• For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  Virginia Woolf

  Pain, Virginia, Blood

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.763, Wordsworth Editions

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• So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

  Lauren Beukes

  Twelve, Ems, Answers

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.149, Jacana Media

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• You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

  Henry Rollins

  Bullets, Condom, Knows

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• A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

  Sylvia Plath

  Children, Flower, Hair

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.17, Anchor

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• I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Eye, Secret, Teeth

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

  Jennifer Estep

  Lace, Cold, Empty

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Vacuums, Behavior, Frightened

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

  Mike Shinoda

  Talking, Opposites, Trying

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