Crush Quotes - Page 7

• You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

  Hilary Mantel

  Pride, Men, World

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• You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Realization, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

  John Green

  Hurt, Two, Teeth

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

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• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

  Charles Dickens

  Yield, Humanity, Twists

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

  Frank Herbert

  Individuality, Balance, Dignity

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

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• Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

  Barbara Mertz

  Boredom, Persons

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• With my life comes my heart, yours now to crush or cherish as you will. It is my hope you will have a care in keeping both.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Heart, Care, Cherish

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• Shigure Sohma: So, anyway, I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is, if it isn't a problem.
  Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening.
  Shigure Sohma: Hmmm? What's this, Hatori? I don't think I ever heard you sound so eager to come over. Could it be you have a secret crush on Tohru?
  [long silence from the other end of the phone]
  Shigure Sohma: [shouts] I knew it! You naughty, naughty man, you!
  Hatori Sohma: No, I was simply too amazed by your stupidity to say anything.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Cutting, Men, Naughty

  "Fruits Basket". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one

  Ryohgo Narita

  Dream, Realizing, Easier

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• i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.

  Maureen Johnson

  New York, Play, Cities

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “13 Little Blue Envelopes”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Dream, Heart

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 30, 2011

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• It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Real, Thinking, Want

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds...extreme,' Jason ventured.

  Rick Riordan

  Order, Silence, Sound

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• You know I could crush you." "I know you won't." "Why, because I need to protect you?" "No," She poked him in the breastplate. "Because you gave me a pillow.

  Larissa Ione

  Needs, Protect You, Pillow

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• She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Epic, Childhood

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• I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Giving Up, Smart

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Men, Honor

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• What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

  Russell Brand

  Ordinary, Mediocrity, Opinion

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• I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

  Hilary Swank

  Fear, Justice, Roles

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• I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.

  Megan McCafferty

  Hurt, It Hurts

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• Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Heart

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.6, NavPress

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• I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Storm, Mountain, Wave

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.630, Macmillan

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• Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.

  James Patterson

  Cute, Baby, Father

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• Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Simple, Understanding

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.81, Bantam

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