Knows Quotes - Page 39

• A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Should, Said

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.247, Macmillan

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• We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Art, Believe

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• Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

  Lord Dunsany

  Wise, Gentleman, World

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fashion, Mean, Ideas

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• A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

  Sara Zarr

  New Beginnings, Thinking, Erase

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• He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal.

  Lauren Kate

  Distance, Waiting, Burning

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• Charlotte, darling," Henry said to his wife, who was staring at him in gape-mouthed horror. Jessamine, beside her, was wide eyed. "Sorry I'm late. You know, I think I might nearly have the Sensor working-" Will interrupted. "Henry," he said, "You're on fire. You do know that don't you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sorry, Thinking, Fire

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Ideas, Waiting, Wikipedia

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

  Novala Takemoto

  Fighting, Battle, Losing

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• I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

  Rebecca Stead

  Life, Steps, Cases

  Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.134, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

  Hermann Hesse

  Siddhartha, Alive, World

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• There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Reflection, Thinking, Heard

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.202, Random House

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• Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Birth, Pinnacle

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• I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Believe, Reality, Confirmation

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• Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad fact that this person actually thinks he bringing some joy into your life. Somewhere he had a mother who sifted through a shoe box of mimeographed playbills, pouring herself another drink and wondering when her son would come to his senses and swallow some drain cleaner.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Son, Thinking

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• It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, War, Inspiration

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• When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

  William Gibson

  Engineering, Design, Want

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.183, Penguin

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• Shane talking to Claire - "Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." "Shut up" Claire said.

  Rachel Caine

  Talking, Long, Shut Up

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• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Atheism, Want

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• No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

  Chaim Potok

  World, Way, Unfortunate

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Interesting

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• All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

  Roland Barthes

  Agents, World, Determined

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• You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  People

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.75, Macmillan

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.43, Wildside Press LLC

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