Mets Quotes - Page 25

• In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Order, Stories, Internet

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• You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a good way to combine our respective kingdoms. Vittra and Trylle have had their disagreements over the years, and we wanted to create peace. Unfortunately, your mother is the most impossible, irrational, horrible woman on the planet.” He smiled at me. “Well, you know. You’ve met her.

  Amanda Hocking

  Mother, Years, Would Be

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• Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war.

  Vera Nazarian

  Country, War, Ocean

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• Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Chance, Effects

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• listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Fire, Mind

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• It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fate, Path, Recognition

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Secrets of a Summer Night”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

  Marian Keyes

  Vacation, Mourning, Special

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• i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my daughter for adoption... did it happen to you, too?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Daughter, Cousin

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• We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.

  Andre Norton

  People, Hated, Craters

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• Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Hero, Unique, People

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• Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  War, Princess, Mean

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• Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Fiction, Passionate

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.117, Random House

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• Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Girl, Running, Opposites

  Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion

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• What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sorry, Crazy, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

  Rachel Cohn

  People, Expectations, Guy

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Saint, Alive

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.106, Seven Stories Press

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• I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you.

  Amanda Hocking

  Home, Thinking

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• Unhappy? I was lucky. So, so lucky. And I couldn’t see it.” His eyes met hers. “I love you,” he said. “And you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And now that I know what it’s like to be someone else—to lose myself—I want my life back. My family. You. All of it.” His eyes darkened. “I want it back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Eye, Unhappy

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Lost Souls”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.

  Jenny Downham

  Funny Things, Want, Stuff

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.337, Random House

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• It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Boys, Mad

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• You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he was really seeing me for the first time. "I don't think I ever really lived until this. I've never done anything that mattered before, but now I'm fighting to save my life, and yours. And I know it sounds really cheesy and lame, but I don't think I ever really felt alive. Not until I met you.

  Amanda Hocking

  Eye, Fighting, Thinking

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• "I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, " - or the best. Now I'm all confused.

  Tamora Pierce

  Sorry, Confused, Liars

  "Alanna: The First Adventure". Book by Tamora Pierce, September 1983.

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• He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Skills, Age

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.58, Penguin

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• Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Safe Haven, Men, Lucky

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• Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Eye, Moments, Flew

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black

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