Lurking Quotes - Page 6

• When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Museums, Juicy

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• I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

  Romola Garai

  Sex, Dark, Cinema

  "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Mark Kermode, Romola Garai, Anna Smith and Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

  Daniel Handler

  Ducks, Feelings, Too Late

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• However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

  Neil Gaiman

  Boots, Vexation, Blithe

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• Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

  Victoria Alexander

  Silly, Greek, Woods

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• i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

  Cassandra Clare

  Teenager, Policy

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• ...if this Roman dude’s as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?

  Alyson Noel

  Dog, Waiting, Stores

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• Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

  Iris Murdoch

  Mean, Eye, Convince Us

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• You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Good Life, Hard Work, Son

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

  Jim Butcher

  Night, Evil, Said

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.524, Penguin

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• He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

  Melina Marchetta

  Good Day, Bad Day, Twenties

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• ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

  Henry James

  Smile, Scratches, Phrases

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.166, e-artnow

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• But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

  John Knowles

  Separate Peace, Used, Wanted

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.

  Kami Garcia

  Pain, Fall, Rocks

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• You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Jobs, Sight, Forever

  Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

  David Wong

  Dark, Night, House

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.18, Titan Books

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• Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Museums, Glasses, Ideas

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• But it’s there. Just because I haven’t told anyone doesn’t mean it isn’t there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can’t get out of your head.

  Meg Cabot

  Song, Mean, Nsync

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• On calm days, you always think you've conquered them.  You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of them for good, now and forever. But that seldom happens. Most of the time, the demons are still there, lurking somewhere in the shadows. Tirelessly waiting for the moment when our guard drops. And when love goes away.

  Guillaume Musso

  Thinking, Waiting, Forever

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• Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

  Ron Padgett

  Mean, Funeral, Poet

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Baby, Children, Taken

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• In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Garden, Shadow, Longing

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Silly, Wine

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• Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Aunt, Boys

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.13, Pottermore

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• Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Law, Ideas

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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