Deep Down Quotes - Page 2

• Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

  David Foster Wallace

  Life, Differences, People

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Desire, Fascination

  Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

  Jodi Picoult

  Art, Believe, Guy

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.

  Carson McCullers

  Taken, Soul, Feelings

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues. I want to say something nice. Some kind of thanks. I stand there, rehearsing it in my mind. "Oh my God," he says, "did you see that girl's tits?" Maybe not today.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Real, Nice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We're on vacation, Kaia, Strider grumbled. You weren't invited. She waved away his words as if they were unimportant. Deep down I know you meant to invite me, so ta-da. Here I am. You're welcome. It's scary how well you know us. Here, pay for this, William said, dumping his candy into Strider's arms. We'll be in the care. Making out.

  Gena Showalter

  Vacation, Here I Am, Scary

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.148, HQN Books

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• Deep down inside, my heart knew the score. And I know that Haven was wrong. It's not always a case of one loving more than the other. When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equal.

  Alyson Noel

  Heart, Two, People

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• The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

  Mary Balogh

  Beautiful, Real, Lying

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.72, Delacorte Press

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• Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over the years we've stopped worrying about that. Deep down, most of us feel it's probably better this way. After all, if there are families in faraway countries with their own backyard missiles, armed and pointed back at us, we would hope that they too have found a much better use for them.

  Shaun Tan

  Country, Government, Years

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• But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Self, Hysteria

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• Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.

  Julia Quinn

  Forever, Panic, Realizing

  Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway (2012). “The Lady Most Likely: A Novel in Three Parts”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  "George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection".

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• You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

  A. S. Byatt

  Children, Feelings, World

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• I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Waiting, New Life, Conviction

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Selfish, Party, Men

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Confused, Years, Two

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her." When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mom, Good Woman, Proud

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grateful, Want, Taylor Markham

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• Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

  David Levithan

  Long, People, Esoteric

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Mean, Different

  Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

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• Oh sure. Because we always talk about deep down stuff.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Stuff

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• When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Heartbroken, Growing Up, Believe

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• The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.

  Kate Morton

  Beautiful, Heart, Acceptance

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• Believe in yourself. Pick a path that you, deep down in your soul, won't be ashamed of.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Believe, Soul, Path

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Manga series by Hiromu Arakawa, July 12, 2001 – June 12, 2010.

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• Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

  Jodi Picoult

  Betrayal, Forgiving, Stones

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