Doe Quotes - Page 39

• Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

  John Green

  Should Have, Long, Lasts

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call. I want your strength to help, your laugh to cheer; Heart, soul and senses need you, one and all. I droop without your full, frank sympathy; We ought to be together—you and I; We want each other so, to comprehend The dream, the hope, things planned, or seen, or wrought. Companion, comforter and guide and friend, As much as love asks love, does thought ask thought. Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, We ought to be together, you and I.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Lonely, Cheer

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• What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Jobs, Mean, Gun

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• That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Long, Want

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Feet, Giving, Six

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Her honor will come to no harm at my hands,” Jack said. “’Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I worry about,” Alexander said. “She’s a delicate lass,” Hugh added. “Aye,” said Gregor. “A Scottish rose.” “Your tender, delicate rose had me ambushed, knocked unconscious, and forced to wed,” Jack ground out. “Facts you all know, if you’ve spoken to Hamish.” Dougal grinned, his teeth flashing whitely. “She has the devil’s own temper, our Fiona does.

  Karen Hawkins

  Heart, Hands, Worry

  Karen Hawkins (2007). “How to Abduct a Highland Lord”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Doors, Trying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld”, p.255, Vintage Canada

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• What business does memory have with time?

  Jess Walter

  Memories

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• I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

  Herta Muller

  Hurt, Eye, Differences

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• I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

  David Levithan

  Night, Ends, Said

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• Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

  Roger Zelazny

  Kindness, Soul, Honor

  Roger Zelazny (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”

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• Have McNab take the edge if you need one. Can he handle bad cop?" "He does it really well during personal role-playing games when I'm the reluctant witness.

  Nora Roberts

  Playing Games, Role Playing, Needs

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• He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  People, Experts, Remember

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Grief, Weapons, Cry

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• To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

  George MacDonald

  Lying, Men, Spirit

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?

  L.A. Meyer

  Dream, Eye, Happens

  L. A. Meyer (2010). “Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West”, p.486, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

  David Levithan

  Stupid, Eye, World Love

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• Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Mean, Snakes

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Evil, Tire, Weary

  Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”

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• Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

  Patrick Ness

  Worst, Knows

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• If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

  Ally Carter

  Europe, Prison, Monaco

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.252, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Darkness, Age

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Light and Night" (p. 28), 1999.

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• To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Character, Destiny

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