Hopscotch Quotes

• Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas

  John Boyne

  Girl, Football, Children

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• Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• I have loved this life.  I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth.  And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Play, Laughing

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• I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

  Brad Leithauser

  Flower, Optimistic, Discovery

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• All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

  Julio Cortazar

  Doors, Profound, Distraction

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• What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

  Julio Cortazar

  Life, Rain, Thinking

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• The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall. I didn't know how to fly, and I didn't want to fall. So I backed away from the cliff and went in search of something that had a clear, solid trajectory for me to follow, like hopscotch.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Fall, Ideas, Want

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• But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.

  Julio Cortazar

  Memories, Teaching, Smell

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.143, Everyman's Library

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• Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

  Julio Cortazar

  Feelings, Etcetera

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.216, Pantheon

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• I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

  Julio Cortazar

  Night, Mind, Compass

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.53, Everyman's Library

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• She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

  Julio Cortazar

  Life, Writing, Opposites

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.49, Everyman's Library

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• Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

  Julio Cortazar

  Love, Relationship, Sleep

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• As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

  Julio Cortazar

  Rain, Skins, Lightning

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.473, Everyman's Library

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