Last Year Quotes - Page 5

• Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Lasts, Duty

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• The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.

  John Green

  Girl, Alaska, Years

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.23, Penguin

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• Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

  B. F. Skinner

  Order, Years, Style

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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• But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.

  Margaret Atwood

  Years, Adjectives, Lasts

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.247, Anchor

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• Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

  Jim Butcher

  Loss, Animal, Years

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• I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage.

  Marianne Curley

  Years, Sweat, Romance

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• My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Years, Desperate Measures

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin

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• Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

  Nora Ephron

  Years, Smell, Long

  "No one has suffered like Nora Ephron -- well, except for me" by Ms. Gonick, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2006.

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• I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

  John Green

  Jobs, Teenager, Book

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• I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "You're still running.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Uncles, School

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.76, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You were first-string running back last year. What happened?” – Coach “Stone’s mouth happened. It needed to be closed, and I was a little too obliging to shut it.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Years, Mouths

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• And clay-caked clothes are so last year.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Clothes, Years, Clay

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.130, MIRA

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• For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Summer, Years

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• [T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.

  Wallace Stegner

  Summer, Football, Mistake

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• It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Christmas, Brother, Sibling

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Couple, Hate

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• Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).

  Sophie Kinsella

  Years, Two, Space

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• I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Steve Martin Introduces the best adapted screenplay at the 2003 Academy Awards, 2003.

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• This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Growing Up, Believe, Blood

  FaceBook post by Karen Kingsbury from Oct 06, 2014

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• She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's right, Trina, I'm talking to you," she shouted. "By the way," she added just for me, "Trina cusses, which means cussing is trashy, which means my golden rule is to never cuss. I have class. Unlike Trina, the skank of Birmingham." The last part was, of course, shouted.

  Gena Showalter

  Cute, Cheating, Lying

  Gena Showalter (2013). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.52, Harlequin

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• Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.

  Robert Pattinson

  Years, Mind, Lasts

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• Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.

  Gena Showalter

  Night, Years, Vintage

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• Dylan, this is my friend, Sadie, I told you about.” He looked at me and gave me a slow smile. “Amanda said you were at school last year. How did I miss you?” he asked, his smile turning into a cocky grin. Before I could think of anything to say, Amanda cleared her throat, again and said, “And this is her date tonight, Jax Stone.

  Abbi Glines

  Cocky, School, Thinking

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

  Philip Larkin

  Grief, Years, Tree

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.217, LUMEN

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• Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

  Alain de Botton

  Years, Lasts, Enough

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2015

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