Knowing Quotes - Page 20

• She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Life, Girl, Inspiration

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• leaning in he kissed her gently, first on the cheek then on her lips. When he met her eyes, she saw the young man shed loved last summer and the young man she still loved now. "I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. and I never stopped thinking about you. even if summers do come and end" she smiled knowing he was telling the truth. "I love you too, Will Blakelee" she wispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Summer, Love You, Eye

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• I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

  Tori Amos

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

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• If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Lilies, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.19, A&C Black

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• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Knives, Long, Lightning

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.112, Penguin

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• A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Importance Of Being Earnest, Tedious

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.672, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Acceptance, Matter, Lasts

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes I remember that I can't always protect those I love." Under his fingers, her hair was soft and silky. She didn't try to tell him that he wasn't God, that he couldn't protect everyone. He knew that. But knowing and believing were two different things. What she did say succeeded in stopping his heart. "I wish you'd love me." Why?" Because then maybe you could protect me, too" Haunting sorrow whispered through her tone.

  Nalini Singh

  Believe, Heart, Hair

  Nalini Singh (2006). “Slave to Sensation”, p.74, Penguin

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• How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I’ve been told I have one of the most recognizable faces in the world. (Aiden) Wow…just out of curiosity, when you go to bed at night, do you find yourself ousted off the mattress by that ego? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Who I Am, People

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• I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Sorry, Taken, Eye

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• In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might prefer one of his male sneaks, but now..." She paused dramatically. "Now, we have the lovely, intelligent Yelena to get Valek's cold heart pumping." "You really should get out of your sewing room more. You need fresh air and a dose of reality," I said knowing better than to believe a word Dilana said, but unable to control the silly little grin on my face. Her sweet, melodious laughter followed me into the hallway. "You know I'm right, " she called.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Sweet, Laughter, Believe

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.169, Harlequin

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• I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Thinking Of You, Waiting, Gone

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.

  Candace Bushnell

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

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• Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.236, Macmillan

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• Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

  Jodi Picoult

  Identification, Knowing Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• Actions that sometimes seem mean aren’t. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Order, Done

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.245, Macmillan

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• I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Before I Fall, Used

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

  Jane Austen

  Six, Wonder, Accomplished

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.33

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• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

  Anne Rice

  Compassion, Evil, Mercy

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.295, Ballantine Books

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• Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

  Sam Harris

  Son, Doubt, Body

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Dog, Eye, Doors

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• It matters to me. That's what you don't get. You can't understand. You can't understand what it's like knowing what I did. That whole time being Strigoi...It's like a dream now, but it's one I remember clearly. There can be no forgiveness for me. And what happened with you? I remember that most of all. Everything I did. Everything I wanted to do.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Matter, Remember

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1040, Penguin

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• I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.

  Emilie Autumn

  May, I Smile

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• Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

  Garth Nix

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing Everything

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #5: Lady Friday”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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