Knowing Quotes - Page 31

• I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, May, Lost

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't wait to tell him one day," she says with a giggle. "'Hey, Chaz, guess what? We knew where your precious car was all the time.' I'd like to take a photo of his face. What do you think?" "I reckon I'd smile really nicely in the photo," Santangelo says behind me, yanking me out of the way, "knowing that you'll be keeping it under your pillow for the rest of your life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Car, Waiting

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• I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

  Nicole Krauss

  Book, Lasts, Last Time

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• Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

  Virginia Woolf

  Cat, People, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Fate, People, Healthy

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• I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Comfort, World

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Pretty That's what I am, I guess. I mean, people have been telling me that's what I am since I was two. Maybe younger. Pretty as a picture. (Who wants to be a cliché?) Pretty as an angel. (Can you see them?) Pretty as a butterfly. (But isn't that really just a glam bug?) Cliché, invisible, or insectlike, I grew up knowing I was pretty and believing everything good about me had to do with how I looked. The mirror was my best friend. Until it started telling me I wasn't really pretty enough.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Butterfly, Mean

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

  Frank Herbert

  Steps, Firsts, Traps

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.44, Penguin

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• Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Order, Being Free

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• For a moment in time, a man knew me for who I was and, without reservation, loved me for who I was. How can I now live knowing no one will ever see me again in such a perfect light? Hear me as I wish to be heard? Love me as [he] loved me?

  Robin Maxwell

  Men, Light, Perfect

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• There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

  John Calvin

  Doe, Knowing God

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• Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

  Cesar Millan

  Spiritual, Dog, Believe

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Mar 24, 2014

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• Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

  Charles Dickens

  Laughter, Eye, Wrinkles

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

  Jenny Valentine

  Thinking, Mad, Wish

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• IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Expression, Laughing

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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• This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.

  Franny Billingsley

  Memories, People, Feelings

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.

  Tea Obreht

  Suffering, Gone, Departure

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• I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

  Suzanne Collins

  Labels, Lambs, Settling

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.293, Scholastic Inc.

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• Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

  Ted Dekker

  Giving, Captives, Worthless

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

  Jodi Picoult

  Knowing Who You Are, Where You Belong, Equal

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

  Suzanne Collins

  Two, Different, Seeing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Farewell, Emotional

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.210, Penguin

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• Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Fashion, Past, Knowing Nothing

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• I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

  John Green

  Believe, Adults

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.223, Penguin

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