Locked Quotes - Page 9

• If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

  Trick Daddy

  Daddy, Together, Mama

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• Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

  Richelle Mead

  Library, News, Rooms

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.310, Penguin

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• You’ll hate me,” she said, her arms locked around him because she couldn’t not hold him when he was close. “One day, you’ll hate me.” It was the thing she most feared. Hand fisting in her hair, he pressed his forehead to her own, his eyes night-glow in the dark. “I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

  Nalini Singh

  Hate, Love You, Eye

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.341, Penguin

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• It’s like once everyone decides who you are, you’re locked into their version of you and that’s it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Versions, Who You Are

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.205, Penguin

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• God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power." "Meaning?" "That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now." He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.

  Linda Howard

  Love You, Kissing, Hair

  Linda Howard (1990). “Duncan's Bride”, Mira Books

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• One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Moving, Men

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• You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Eye, Doors

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• When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

  Frantz Fanon

  Color, Dislike Me, Circles

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• The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list of useful skills she needed to acquire along with hand-to-hand combat and the recipe for pesto. If her life were to continue on its present track which after 26 years of obscurity, now seemed to mainly involve people trying to kill her, it would appear that acquiring a less savory skill set might be necessary. Although she supposed pesto making ought to be termed 'more savory'.

  Gail Carriger

  Doors, Hands, Years

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• I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.

  Joan Didion

  Inspiring, Wall, Doors

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.188, Knopf

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• The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

  Ivan Illich

  Sacrifice, Medicine, Toil

  Ivan Illich (1982). “Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Soul, Schedules, Overwhelming

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 21, 2015

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• In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

  Julian Fellowes

  Memories, Past, People

  Julian Fellowes (2008). “Past imperfect”, Orion Pub Co

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• I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

  Chester Brown

  Hurt, Thinking, Should Have

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Hurt, Couple

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• Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

  Ellen Langer

  Learning, Knowledge, Views

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• I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Life, Acne, Miserable

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• The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  Garrett Hardin

  Believe, Men, Animal

  "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 13 Dec. 1968

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• As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, War, Soul

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• Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.

  Yukito Kishiro

  Children, Creativity, Greatness

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• He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked. "That's it?" He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're not exactly in a good part of town." "It's got a car alarm." "Don't you, like, cast a spell or something? To keep it safe?" "No. It's a pretty good car alarm.

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Keys, Doors

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• Adrian suddenly glanced up at me. Our gazes locked, and I felt like he could read my mind. How often did he think about that kiss? And if he really was crazy about me, did he imagine more than just kissing? Did he fantasize about me? What kinds of things did he think about? His lips on my neck? His hand on my leg? And was that leg bare . . . ?

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, Kissing, Thinking

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• The wind is knocked out of me; and when I look up, I see Nine spitting blood out. He's grinning. "Are you crazy?" I ask. "You're enjoying this?" "I've been locked up for over a year. This is the best day of my life!

  Pittacus Lore

  Crazy, Blood, Years

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• Crumb,” he said. “What?” A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. “Got it.” His grin spread.

  J. Lynn

  Eye, Air, Lips

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• Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm had changed ever so slightly. Annabelle moistened her dry lips. “You …you mustn’t stare at me like that.” Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. “With you here, nothing else is worth looking at.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Breathing, Dry, Faces

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