Lost Quotes - Page 40

• Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Looks, Pages

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?" "Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Bats, Titles

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

  Rachel Caine

  Dad, Journey, Maps

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• McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he is still so familiar. I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, I Love Him, Agony

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• A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Taken, Devil

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

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• When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)

  Katsura Hoshino

  Heart, Men, Sight

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• Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.

  Ian Mcewan

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.

  Mark Dunn

  Trying, Toadstools, Habit

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• There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mind, Sun, Classic

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.

  Julian Barnes

  Dark, Sea, Sky

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• What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Mirrors, Luxury

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• And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Summer, Wind, Sea

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.

  Wilson Rawls

  Beautiful, Girl, Spring

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• What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Compassion, Thinking, Hands

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• Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara) You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Should Have, People, League

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Winning, Thinking

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• Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

  Ian Mcewan

  Views, Talking, Years

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.99, Random House

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• Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Past, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (1993). “Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang”, E P Dutton

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• We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face. "Sorry," she murrmured. "S'okay," I grunted, though I'd never really wanted to know what Annabeth's sneaker tasted like.

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Sneakers, Feet

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. Nobody was going to swat down my friends like that! I mean... nobody, not Nobody. Ah, you know what I mean.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Stupid, Believe

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• Tyson- "Cash? Like...green paper?" Percy- "Yeah." Tyson- "Like the kind in duffel bags?" Percy-"Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--." "Tyson! How did you--" Tyson- "Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry.

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Sea, Rainbow

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• Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

  Neil Gaiman

  Freedom Of Speech, Stuff, Like You

  "Why defend freedom of icky speech?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 1, 2008.

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• The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.

  Shiro Amano

  Light, Sight, Darkness

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• I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.

  Kami Garcia

  Dream, Rain, Trying

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