Endless Quotes - Page 38

• Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Forever, Spinning, Tiny

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Childhood, Body, Faces

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.34, Penguin

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• life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

  David Foster Wallace

  War, Self, Endless War

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• Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.

  Douglas Coupland

  War, Years, Survivor

  1991 Generation X,'It Can't Last'.

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• It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Ocean, Islands, Space

  Lauren DeStefano (2014). “The Chemical Garden Series Books 1-3: Wither, Fever, Sever”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Struggle, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.143, Bantam

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• When your fight has purpose - to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent - it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling - when it is about your name, the places to which your blood is anchored, the attachment of your name to some landmark or event - there is nothing but hate, and the long, slow progression of people who feed on it and are fed it, meticulously, by the ones who come before them. Then the fight is endless, and comes in waves and waves, but always retains its capacity to surprise those who hope against it.

  Tea Obreht

  Hate, Fighting, Attachment

  "The Tiger's Wife". Book by Tea Obreht, 2009.

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• Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Earth, Creation

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Journey, Thinking

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• To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache.

  Jasper Fforde

  Espresso, White, Heartache

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• Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.

  Ava Gardner

  Hurt, Cheer, Thinking

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• One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won't let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in this world. If you're lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.

  Susane Colasanti

  Eye, Differences, Making A Difference

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “So Much Closer”, p.222, Scholastic UK

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• Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Echoes, Voice, Dwelling

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• I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Home, Glowing

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Unrequited Love, Mean

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.145, Penguin

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• They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.

  Mira Grant

  Wall, Men, Risk

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

  Carson McCullers

  Love, Struggle, Endless Time

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Running, Character, Looks

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Mesh, Made

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Race, People

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Circles, Life And Death, Hunters

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• Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?

  Cate Tiernan

  Fall, Earth, Too Much

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• Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words, which you didn't think deeply about and sometimes dismissed as useless when she was with you, awoke in your heart, creating tidal waves.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mom, Heart, Thinking

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.260, Vintage

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• It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

  Sarah Dessen

  Shooting, Possibility, Endless Possibilities

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

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• That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Battle, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 16, 2016

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