Letters Quotes - Page 33

• Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Long, Lines

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.355, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Heart, Hair

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• We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Lying, People

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• One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cat, Wife, Cuba

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• Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fog, Drawing, Signatures

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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  Virginia Woolf

  Block, Fall, Names

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic

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• Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

  Matthew Quick

  Opportunity, Thinking, Different

  Matthew Quick (2012). “Boy21”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.

  Nancy Horan

  Memories, Past, Order

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Love Letter

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• It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

  Colin Wilson

  Writing, Views, Looks

  Colin Wilson (1985). “The essential Colin Wilson”

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• Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, People, Trying

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Book, Smell, Titles

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• Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

  Lauren Oliver

  Bumps, Stories, Four

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• Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

  Kristin Cashore

  Frustration, Strange, Fit

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.68, Penguin

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• I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding the emotion. Artists have not pored over heartache and unrequited sentimentality for years so that our generation could decide that four letters is simply one too many to express how we feel.

  Jon Richardson

  Artist, Our Generation, Years

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• Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

  Brandon Mull

  Girl, Grandma, Thinking

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• M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Magic, Together

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

  Jane Austen

  Tired, Attachment, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wonder, Lord, Admirable

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.873, Bantam

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• I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

  Albert Einstein

  Hero, Nominations, Kind

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• This letter really touched my heart. Sabrina says when she lost all her hair during chemo, she wore the cap I gave her.

  Justin Bieber

  Heart, Hair, Lost

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• If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

  Daniel Handler

  Feelings, Care, Way

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• He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

  Rumi

  Love, Meditation

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.100, Penguin UK

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• We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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