Easier Quotes - Page 14

• love is...you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hate, Confused, Mean

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cutting, Evil, Wickedness

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.7965, Delphi Classics

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• Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall." "Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.

  Obert Skye

  Wall, Stupid, Thinking

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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

  Crush, Dream, Realizing

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• It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Aliens

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• Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

  Holly Black

  Opportunity, Feel Good, Decision

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone.

  Sarah MacLean

  Long, Needs, Forget

  Sarah MacLean (2012). “Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord: Number 2 in series”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, Memories, Night

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

  David Levithan

  Aunt, Order, Needs

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• This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mountain, Ascent, Higher

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• I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one, I get one.” “No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor,” Dad said. “What if we’re failing a course?” asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. “If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Daughter, Jobs, Dad

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• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• [He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Expression, Nephew, Wish

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• It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Two, Four, Might

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear”, p.17, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Beautiful. You can be taught. Makes my job so much easier when you’re actually intelligent. You’d be amazed at the idiots I’ve come across.” – Death “I try to keep my stupid to a bare minimum, since my mom’s always telling me it can be fatal in large doses.” – Nick “Oh, she’s right. Believe me, I know. For that matter, it can be fatal even in small measures. Remind me sometime to tell you about the woman I claimed who was vacuuming her cat.” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Mom, Jobs

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• There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

  Mira Grant

  Hate, People

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Suffering, Endure

  Jonathan Maberry (2010). “Rot & Ruin”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• [...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Splendor, Deals

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• So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

  Michael Scott

  Dark, Virginia, Imagination

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• Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Insanity, Accepting, Unconsciousness

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.149, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

  Jim Butcher

  Writing, Monsters, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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• Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Thinking, Horror Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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• The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

  Veronica Roth

  Goal, Ifs

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would be easier if he wasn’t so damned good-looking. “Why, my mother drank wine every day, and I turned out just fine.” “I think you’re proving my point for me,” I said dryly

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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