Littles Quotes - Page 34

• elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

  David Levithan

  Kissing, Sides, Turns

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Life And Death, Imperfection

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• Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Lying, Details

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three: 5 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.

  Anne Rice

  Hands, House, Ashes

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• I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

  Frank Herbert

  Persistence, Simple, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.139, Penguin

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Caring, Men

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• Try a little tenderness.

  Sara Zarr

  Trying, Tenderness

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.24, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Loneliness, Ordinary Days

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• No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Book, Heart, Leaving

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• He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

  T. S. Eliot

  Patience, Dying, Waste Land

  1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

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• What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting on my feelings. It was the intensity of them. The desire for her. I knew if I gave into it, I'd have to surrender myself completely. I'd lose all control. Everything I knew, everything I was, the walls I'd built up to protect myself all these years would come crashing down. I might get lost in the rubble. Yet, she made me feel alive in a way I'd only ever imagined I could feel. Bells, whistles, music.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Wall, Thinking, Years

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• If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Important

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• The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Circles, Darkness, Lamps

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• My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

  John Green

  Faults, Infinity, Lancaster

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• I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Men, Years

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Couple, Knowing, Sky

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 17, 2012

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• So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Thinking, Long, Train

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mother, Father

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.4, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

  Stephen King

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Brave

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

  Eminem

  Thinking, Average, Individual

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• We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

  Anne Rice

  Knowing, Giving, Mind

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.865, Ballantine Books

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• You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.

  Caprice Crane

  Fun, Crazy, Needs

  Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.285, Bantam

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• And the very important fact that I'm here to worry with you and go through all of this - every little bit of it - by your side, even your worst-case-scenario, should it somehow come to that. You wouldn't be doing any of it alone.' Her voice drops and she looks down at our hands, fingers entwined, resting on her lap. 'Whatever happens, there will always be us.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Hands, Your Side, Worst Case Scenario

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• They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

  Thomas Hardy

  Expression, Feelings, Phrases

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.378, e-artnow

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• There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

  James S.A. Corey

  Holden, Said, Things To Do

  James S. A. Corey (2011). “Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix)”, p.235, Hachette UK

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