Knowing Quotes - Page 36

• The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

  Laura Lippman

  Past, Foundation, Remember

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• I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

  A.M. Jenkins

  Lesson Learned, Lessons, Firsts

  A. M. Jenkins (2009). “Repossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen

  Suzanne Collins

  Goodbye, Years, Two

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• They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  World, Limits, Impossible

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• Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.

  P. L. Travers

  Running, Grandmother, Blood

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• How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Dark, Sea, Mind

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Couple, Hands

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• Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Home, Mean, Important

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• Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Risk, Enough

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.34, Penguin

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• I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.

  Ally Carter

  Children, Glasses, Silence

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

  Ann Brashares

  Mean, Way, Scared

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.415, Delacorte Press

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

  Jodi Picoult

  Starting Over, Tasks, Best Things

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• There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

  Charles Portis

  Heart, Men

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.30, A&C Black

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• We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

  Sophie Kinsella

  The End Of The Day, Important, Too Short

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Ties The Knot: (Shopaholic Book 3)”, p.305, Random House

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• If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

  Dan Abnett

  Firsts, Speak, Window

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• ...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

  Jan Karon

  Understanding, Littles, Too Much

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.242, Penguin

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• It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Perfect, Trying

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• To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Perfect, Left Hand, Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.55, Penguin

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• The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

  Erich Segal

  Pain, Done, Not Knowing

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cheer, Fall, Knives

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.524, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Anthony grinned at her, knowing that would probably infuriate her all the more. "My eyes have been a-wandering, as you put it, for the last nineteen years. Give them a rest, Roslynn. They settled on you and don't want to move on.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Moving, Eye, Years

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• But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, Hands, Years

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Looks, World, Venture

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.602, Dell

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