Littles Quotes - Page 35

• Alright...here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side...you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there...wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him.

  Chester Bennington

  Simple, Guy, Trying

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• What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?” Will demanded, giving her arm a light shake. Cecily’s eyes narrowed. “This morning it was cariad (note: Welsh endearment, like ‘darling’ or ‘love’), now it’s idiot.

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Eye, Light

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• You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

  Karin Slaughter

  Looks, Realizing, Passing

  Karin Slaughter (2014). “The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Unseen”, p.652, Bantam

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• Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Wall, Mean

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.322, Bantam

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• In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, New Life

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• When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Play, Wish, Sometimes

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• Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

  Ally Carter

  Years, Two, Hale

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• The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mom, Mother, Artist

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• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

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• People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Ocean, Views, Sky

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.194, Penguin

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• She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her. I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest.

  Isaac Marion

  Heart, Hug, Necks

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.

  Meg Cabot

  Order, Firsts, Dies

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• I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.

  Kiersten White

  Genius, Undead

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• There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

  Roland Smith

  Too Much, Fearful, Occasions

  Roland Smith (2005). “The Cryptid hunters”

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• It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Mean, Darkness

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• I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure.

  Jim Butcher

  Struggle, Cat, Understanding

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.61, Penguin

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• Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.

  Rachel Caine

  Flames, Busy, Throwing

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.61, Allison & Busby

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• The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

  Libba Bray

  Fighting, Caves, World

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

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• You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.

  Tessa Dare

  Kissing, Thinking, Years

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• Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Writing, Ideas

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• Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

  Terry Pratchett

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy... and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.

  Bill Watterson

  Dream, Dad, Stupid

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question.

  Mira Grant

  Hair, Blood, Hands

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• There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Smile, Mistake, Dancing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.190, A&C Black

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