Kind Quotes - Page 10

• There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Like You, Explanation, Knows

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.224, Macmillan

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• When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful, Book, Glasses

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• Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Block, Surveillance Cameras

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• There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

  Rachel Simon

  Sadness, Rainy Day, Two

  Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Doubt, Anything Goes

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

  David Abram

  Character, Years, Tree

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.35, Vintage

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• Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don’t forget you’re one of a kind When nobody’s checking the deeds you’ve done And nobody’s hearing your cries You make all the fashion statements Just by dressing up your mind ((Beauty in Ugly))

  Jason Mraz

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Mind

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• Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

  Kami Garcia

  Funny Things, Giving, Ironic

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• The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Suicide, Catholic, Church

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.118, Penguin

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• In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Soul, Solitude, Erode

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• Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.

  Holly Black

  People, Waitress, Refills

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

  Nancy Farmer

  Stories, Spells, Listeners

  Nancy Farmer (1994). “The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: A Novel”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.

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• It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Tired, Dating, House

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• Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?

  Marissa Meyer

  Love Is, Feels, Knows

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• Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.

  Barry Lyga

  Flower, Heart, Cutting

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• There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Air, Silence, Certain

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• I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses." He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: "Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room?" I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed.

  Robin McKinley

  Eye, Night, Light

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• Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

  John Green

  Perfection, Eiffel Tower, Vessel

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.50, A&C Black

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• They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

  Emile Zola

  Confusion, Mind, Peers

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• The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Baby, Book, Reading

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, www.abc.net.au. 2011.

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• People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

  Anne Tyler

  Love, Next Day, Water

  Anne Tyler (2004). “Back When We Were Grownups”

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• School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, School, Character

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• I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

  Mindy Kaling

  Swimming, College, Community

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.47, Three Rivers Press

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• Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit.

  Gena Showalter

  Bullshit, Today, Mood

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.69, HQN Books

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• Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present." "Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.

  Jennifer Estep

  Voice, Generosity, Scrooge

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