Littles Quotes - Page 36

• [...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

  Haruki Murakami

  World

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• We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Eye, People

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• What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.

  Douglas Adams

  Confused, Men, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Kids, Airports

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mirrors, Hair, Ideas

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• If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Light, Dying, Rage

  Mark Gatiss (2009). “Black Butterfly: A Lucifer Box Novel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Why are tall guys always attracted to short women? Not just moderately short women, either... Tiny women. Polly Pockets. The tallest guys always-always-always go for the shortest girls. Always. It's like they're so infatuated with their own height that they want to be with someone who makes them feel even taller. Someone they can tower over. A little doll that will make them feel even bigger and stronger.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Guy, Stronger

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

  Ned Vizzini

  Running, Thinking, These Days

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• Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

  Jay Asher

  Bits, Little Bit, Ifs

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.115, Penguin

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• Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Book, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.24, Random House

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• Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

  Libba Bray

  Laughing, Body, Trouble

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.” Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. “Well, I never!” “Yeah, that’s what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!

  Libba Bray

  Going Away, Looks, Mouths

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• They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Song, Night

  Enid Blyton (2016). “The Secret Island”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

  Craig Silvey

  Giving, Might, Easier

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• What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Doe, Said, Persons

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.235, Dial Press

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• There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Daughter, Sleep

  1598 Leonato, of Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.321-5.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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