Littles Quotes - Page 32

• I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

  Kate Chopin

  Sorry, Missing, Mind

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.278

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• A little faith can do wonders.

  Dan Brown

  Wonder, Little Faith, Can Do

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.

  Megan Hart

  Secret Places, Land, Long

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• And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.

  Megan Hart

  Forever, Not Afraid

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• For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reading, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

  Rumi

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• If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Joy, Today, Tomorrow

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.114, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

  Eleanor Catton

  Self, Perspective, Dawn

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Reality, Wind

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• What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Giving, What If

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1260, Penguin UK

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• If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled. "To be the little spoon.

  Karen Chance

  Spoons, Awake, Ifs

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.275, Penguin

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• I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sleep, Needs, Dies

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1665, Bantam

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• When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spring, Winter, Snow

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• I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.

  Abbi Glines

  Moving, Sleep, Night

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• There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Sadness, Elude Us

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• When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Mystery, Made

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• I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

  Timothy Zahn

  Opportunity, People, Luck

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• Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Wheel Of Time, Stubbornness

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.257, Macmillan

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• I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crazy, Looks, Enough

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.73, Anchor

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• A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Water, Pairs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2227, Penguin

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• Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!” “Oh, sure,” Leo said. “Like…um, the Little Mermaid?” Aphros frowned. “Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!” “Oh. ”Leo had no idea who any of those people were. “You trained Bill? Impressive.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Eye, Pride

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• He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a passerby, he was in a place where everything, not only the land, was open. People would feel free to talk, and he was free to listen. To carry a little of them as he went.

  Rachel Joyce

  Mistake, Journey, Land

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• It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

  James Patterson

  Freak

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