Knowing Quotes - Page 26

• So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Thinking, Ideas

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• But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

  Garth Nix

  Fear, Thinking, Doors

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.301, Hot Key Books

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• Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.

  David Rakoff

  Lonely, Mean, Kissing

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Nov 09, 2015

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• Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Important, Way

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Hero, Needs

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

  Douglas Coupland

  Suicidal, Thinking, Doors

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• ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Done, Ingredients, Well Known

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 23, 2016

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• A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

  Gene Wolfe

  Feel Better, Things In Life, Trying

  Gene Wolfe (2007). “Pirate Freedom”, p.252, Macmillan

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• The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

  Barry Lopez

  Animal, Blood, Eerie

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

  Alyson Noel

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Falling In Love, Art, Book

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• I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It’s still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I’m fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there’s one thing I haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Spring, Believe, Air

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• He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

  Philip Roth

  Entering

  Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?

  Simon R. Green

  Blood, Games, Play

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• It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Knowing Who You Are, Starting Over, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.227, Vintage

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• But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

  Kiran Desai

  Believe, Pride, Self

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.285, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same.You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Pride, Men, Vanity

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.143, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Dark, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

  Andrew Vachss

  Ideas, People, Want

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• Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?

  Salman Rushdie

  Cheer, Giving Up, Fate

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• We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Lying, Taken, Hero

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Well of Tears”, p.346, Pan Macmillan

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• We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Together, Needs, World

  Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.182, Penguin

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• Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

  Richelle Mead

  Life And Death, Would Be, World

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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