Doe Quotes - Page 24

What did she see in me? What does she see that I don't?

Julie Anne Peters

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How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

Julie Anne Peters

Fear Of Death

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Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.

Margaret Haddix

Mother, Pain, Father

Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

Harper Lee

Night, Men, People

Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

Brad Barkley

Lying, Together, Needs

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Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

Lauren Oliver

Beautiful, Book, Perception

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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

Anne Tyler

Son, People, Closeness

Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Nora Roberts

Mean, Fate, Blood

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Why does it take girls so long to shower?” he demanded. “Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you‘re all the same. I‘m not getting any younger waiting out here.” -Magnus to Clary, pg.272-

Cassandra Clare

Girl, Long, Waiting

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Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or does needle drugs or something. Then it's wrong, and a bad monkey.

Kathy Reichs

Drug, Want, Monkeys

Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.26, Penguin

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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Robert Green Ingersoll

Children, My Children, Raises

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.372, Library of Alexandria

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Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

Douglas Adams

People, Letters, Alphabet

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.29, Del Rey

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Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

Ian Mcewan

Inevitable Death, Inevitable

Ian McEwan, Michael Berkeley (1983). “Or shall we die?: words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley”, Jonathan Cape

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What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

William Wordsworth

Passion, Men, Soul

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.376

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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Viktor E. Frankl

Men, Next, Existence

Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, Beacon Press

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It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down―I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?" "Yeah Jake. I know that. And I already do count on you, probably more than you know.

Stephenie Meyer

Hurt, Promise, Unhappy

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Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.

Peter Høeg

Understanding, Majority, Abandonment

Peter Høeg (1995). “Borderliners”, Harvill Press

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The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.

Annie Dillard

Running, Trying, Nowhere To Turn

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The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Aristotle

Character, Government, Democracy

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine hours a day, and the whole time he’s surrounded by beds. And not only that, he’s surrounded by shoppers who see the beds and can’t help but think, Man, I’d love to lie down on that bed for a second. So not only does he have to stop himself from lying down, but he has to stop everyone else from doing it, too. I knew if I were him, I would be desperate for human company.

Rachel Cohn

Jobs, Lying, Mean

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It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

John Steinbeck

People, Passing Away, Forget

John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.92, Penguin

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...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna be me, then I would have it be a man who loves you.

Diana Gabaldon

Love You, Men, Care

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To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Real, Answers, Social Justice

W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.67, Oxford University Press

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Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

Mary Balogh

Philosophical, Happy Life, Thinking

Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just because we're mean. I guess there's a million reason to lie, and I might've told that many...but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over. What? Oh, maybe you don't know about it yet. Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do...and if you get lucky...you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it's gone. And it never comes back again.

Billie Letts

Crazy, Lying, Mean

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