Knowing Quotes - Page 32

• My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

  Pink

  Party, Naked, Definitions

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• I want to make a bet with you.” Her interest perked up. “You do? About what?” Already knowing it wouldn’t go over well, Spencer braced himself. “I bet you can’t go a month without cursing.” Her chin tucked in, and her brows came down. “What does that have to do with anything?” He had no idea, except that it annoying him to hear her be so coarse. “Go a month without cursing.” He hated himself, but he said, “Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

  Lori Foster

  Kissing, Ideas, Doe

  Lori Foster (2012). “A Perfect Storm”, p.24, HQN Books

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• “Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful." "You want to be beautiful?" I asked him. "Are you saying I'm not?"

  Sarah Dessen

  Beautiful, Laughing, Waiting

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 27, 2002.

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• Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

  John Green

  Pride, Malls, Stills

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.668, Penguin

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• I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

  Brad Meltzer

  Pain, Betrayal, Javelin

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• You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but there’s something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Transition, Hot

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• Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

  François Lelord

  Two, Feelings, Different

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• I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Pain, Over You, Trying

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.153, Vintage

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• It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.

  Emily Giffin

  Night, Long, Wanted

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.46, Macmillan

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• I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Betrayal, Thinking, Choices

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.283, Macmillan

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• Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Grief, Rain, Night

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

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• That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

  C. S. Lewis

  Agony, Heaven, Bliss

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• Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Two, Common

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• The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Squares, Use

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

  Lauren Oliver

  School, Holiday, Cafeteria

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Knives, Trying

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• Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now. “ It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Religious, Believe, Eye

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• Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Crazy

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• My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Knowing Everything, Rooms

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• You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Beginners, Naked

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• We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.

  Steven Erikson

  Believe, Compassion, Giving

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• Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fear, Temptation, Knows

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Asking

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• She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

  John Green

  Alaska, Pranks, Tricks

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.106, Penguin

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• Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Past, Light

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