Cracks Quotes - Page 9

• Eastlake High makes Buffy's hellmouth look like a crack in the sidewalk.

  Rachel Vincent

  Looks, Sidewalk

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.106, Harlequin

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person.

  John Green

  Voice, Spokes, Persons

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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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• 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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• opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Doors, World, Enough

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• Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night.

  Neil Gaiman

  Good Night, Men, Two

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.75, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Use, Violation

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• The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It’s not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.

  Holly Black

  Eye, Phones, Cells

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lightning, Steel, Littles

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.265, Penguin

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• He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Men, Tree

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• And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Orange, Tree

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

  Haruki Murakami (2004). “Vintage Murakami”, Vintage

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• Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.

  Ally Carter

  Morning, Reading, Gun

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• You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying to make out with him," he suggested. How did he know that? "I was kissing him good-bye." He snorted and exchanged glances with the nurse. "That's not what it looked like to me." Probably not. But what happened? Could Reyes Farrow take control over me even from a freaking coma? I was doomed.

  Darynda Jones

  Kissing, Bye, Nurse

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.211, St. Martin's Press

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