Losing Quotes - Page 16

• Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone.

  Jennifer Egan

  Forever, Gone, Knows

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.152, Anchor

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• As a child he had grown up without a mother or even a grandmother. He had never really explored emotional relationships or marriage. He'd never been given advice on the matter. The closest he'd really come to seeing a relationship was watching Ryland Miller pursue Lily. The man had lost his mind. Nicholas had a feeling he'd joined the ranks of en losing their mind over women.

  Christine Feehan

  Mother, Children, Men

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• I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.

  Steig Larsson

  Want, Steady, Terrified

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• Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.379, Scholastic Inc.

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• So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

  Gayle Forman

  Voice, Mia, Irrational Fear

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.87, Penguin

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• Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

  Victor Hugo

  Winning, Voice, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

  Ann Voskamp

  Years, Awareness, Eternity

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.77, Zondervan

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• The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, Principles, Pepsi

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• I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Sorry, Play

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• I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

  Deb Caletti

  Liars, Losing Someone

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• Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.

  Jenny Downham

  Thinking, Tree, Forget

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Romantic, Hunger For Love, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Boys, Talking

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cheating, Joy, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Giving, Firsts

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• People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Appreciation, People, Giving

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• I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

  Paulo Coelho

  Winning, Thinking

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• Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Risk

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

  Kij Johnson

  Grieving, Emotion, Dangerous

  Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.180, Macmillan

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• How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Loss, Foolish, Dread

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Losing Yourself

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• Sometimes I’m afraid that I’m losing myself.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sometimes, Losing Myself

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• O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.

  Dante Alighieri

  Angel, Sea, Singing

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• I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!

  Stephen Schwartz

  Long, Trying, Cost

  David Coté, Joan Marcus, Stephen Schwartz (2005). “Wicked: the Grimmerie”, Hyperion Books

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• I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

  Lisa Lutz

  Breathing, Mind

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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